BATANGAS CITY — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) highlighted Thursday the significance of strengthening Research and Development (R&D) to improve the business worth and advertising potential of Filipino innovations.
During the Inno.Venta 2025 occasion right here in Batangas City, DOST Undersecretary for Special Concerns Teodoro Gatchalian mentioned commercialization is not going to occur if analysis and innovations should not robust sufficient to be marketable.
He urged researchers and builders to not simply goal publication in journals, however to create options that may be developed into merchandise.
“We need to strengthen research to make commercialization possible… Before we can sell science, we must first build science that works, science that solves real problems, meets industry needs, and creates value for people,” Gatchalian mentioned.
“We must not pursue R&D for publication alone. We must pursue R&D for production, protection, and prosperity. There are many studies about how research and output had become economic enablers… Without R&D, commercialization becomes a guessing game, but through scientific inquiry, we begin to answer critical questions,” he added.
DOST is at present conducting the Inno.Venta 2025 at Batangas State University with the purpose of connecting researchers to potential buyers wanting to commercialize Philippine innovations.
Gatchalian mentioned pursuing commercialization should turn into a pure subsequent step in analysis, which meant that research should consider marketability, usability and reliability earlier than it’s pursued additional.
The undersecretary additionally shared that a number of elements that decide if R&D outputs had been prepared for markets had been technical maturity, market relevance, financial and manufacturing viability, mental property safety, trade collaboration, scalability and danger administration, and timing.
He assured that promoting or profiting off innovations didn’t imply diminishing the worth of a discovery, however quite enhancing the financial system.
“When market demand and scientific rigor meet at the very beginning of a project, the result is innovation that is not only publishable but also profitable… When we talk about selling science, we are not diminishing its value. We are amplifying it. We’re saying science must not remain confined to the journals, it must be translated to jobs, industries, and inclusive growth,” he mentioned.
“Strong R&D is not the opposite of commercialization; it is their foundation. So, our challenge to everybody here today, to our scientists, think of the big world who will use your discoveries,” he added.
Last July, Filipino scientists of the Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (Agham) lamented the alleged lack of support for science and technology.
Agham bemoaned that the Philippines doesn’t meet the UNESCO suggestion of not less than 1% GDP spending to R&D, however solely 0.32% primarily based on newest out there knowledge in 2018 reported by the group. — VDV, GMA Integrated News