I attended the call conference hosted by the Department of Science and Technology last February 28, 2020. The call conference is intended to provide a unified venue to present some updates and new requirements and procedures for research proposal processing, and submission. The event was participated by representatives from different HEIs and RDIs in NCR and Region IV.
One interesting requirement needed for research proposals for this round of calls is that there should be a private company partnering with the proponents. The purpose is for the possible commercialization of the research output. Although this is an interesting development, I think this will be difficult, especially for SUCs and UP. Issues regarding Intellectual Property should be addressed early on in the project.
The figure above shows some statistics about the DOST-funded projects sorted according to decreasing research index.
