Marcos seeks to level up PH research, development efforts

Manila Bulletin

While the Philippines is doing good on research, it lacks in terms of development.  President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. stated this during the conferment of the Order of National Scientists and the Presidential Medal of Merit to two Filipinos on Thursday, Aug. 31, in Malacañang. (Video Courtesy of RTVM)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2023/8/31/marcos-wants-research-to-materialize-through-better-development   Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:29 And that is why I have asked all of those who are involved

00:38 that we need to now be very conscientious and put together

00:43 a program wherein we can support in whatever way

00:48 that the government can on research and development.

00:53 And as I think all of us know, that some of the problems

00:59 are in the development side.

01:03 We kept talking about what are the methods that we can do so

01:10 that the R&D or the new knowledge,

01:14 the new technologies can be brought to market, as it were,

01:18 as quickly as possible.

01:20 It is the problem that we have faced in all parts,

01:23 especially with the new technologies of scaling.

01:26 And that, I think, is an important problem,

01:29 an important issue, simply because, again, it

01:34 does not matter if we have this very, very clever, very, very

01:43 advanced and progressive technologies.

01:47 But if they are not made available to the people,

01:52 then that effort has gone to waste.

01:58 And we do not want to do that.

02:00 The other side of that problem, and as we had identified,

02:04 is that we are confident we can do it so long as it

02:08 is well-supported.

02:09 Now, not only by the government.

02:11 We spoke also about, again, in consonance

02:16 with our approach, our policy, our concept,

02:23 and all of government approach and the whole of society

02:26 approach, that we include the private sector.

02:29 Because as we all know, some of these research programs

02:34 can become quite expensive.

02:36 And they can go on for a long time.

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