"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
When we decided to focus on promoting our local innovations through the web last year, we believed that this will allow us to reach more people and share that there are so many things that our researchers, inventors and innovators have already created or developed.
Personally, in the many technology-focused events that we have initiated since 2000, I have observed that many of our partners such as research institutions and universities can do compete internationally, despite their limited funds.
Institutions and organizations have the following:
- DOST - Advanced Science and Technology Institute has Bayanihan Linux
- Philippine Carabao Center has started cloning researches on our buffalos
- CLIERDEC has research collaborations among its member-institutions
- DLSU - College of Computing Studies has some advanced researches like robotics
- Technological University of the Philippines has outputs ready for patents
Other developments that can push innovation to a new level:
- The national government, along with some partners, have launched the fist National Innovation Summit last November, 2007
- Cebu, for one, will stage the Cebu Business Month ICT Conference this June and will include the first Cebu International Open Source Summit with the objective of catapulting Cebu as an “Innovation Island”
In the coming months, we will feature our local innovators from different sectors such as academe, ICT, agriculture, government research, energy, telecommunications, etc.
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