Abstract:
The Kenya’s economic recovery strategy for wealth and employment creation recognizes the great
role that Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sector play in wealth generation, employment creation
and poverty reduction. Consequently, the government has put in place policies and promotional
programmes aimed at improving the Kenyan economy through promotion of Micro and Small
Enterprises. Among these, the government has invested a lot in enhancing technical capabilities
amongst its youth who are expected to start MSES for self employment after graduation. These
capabilities come in form of information and skills- technical, managerial and institutional – that
allow productive enterprises to utilize equipment and technology efficiently. The purpose of
technology is to improve productivity of enterprises, and enhance the quality of goods produced by
enterprises to help them with-stand local and international competition. However, despite all these
efforts, the competitiveness and growth prospects of MSEs fall below the levels required to meet
challenges of increasing and changing basis for competition. The objectives were to determine the
effect of technical and entrepreneurial education and provision of youth development fund on
technology adoption among MSEs in Kenya. A descriptive research design was used. Stratified
random sampling technique was employed to select the sample. Data was analyzed using the Excel
computer software. It was found that access to credit and inadequate institutional capacity to
support adaptation and absorption of modern technologies still remain the main impediments to
growth and sustainability of the MSES. The recommendations were that MSEs need to be provided
with adequate finances, tools and equipment coupled with field visits to industries and performing
MSES for benchmarking and to upgrade their business skills.
