MAJOR

DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS AND
PERSONALITIES IN
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN THE
PHILIPPINES
GROUP 3
GROUP 3
 Pre Colonial Period

• Measuring and Weighing System

• Engaged in Farming, Mining and Weaving
• Knowledge of Martial Arts and Weaponry
 Spanish Colonial Period

• Government Buildings, Churches, Roads and Ports were constructed

• Formal Education was Established (Example: University Of Santo Thomas)
• Galleon Trade
• Opening of Suez Canal
• Manila-Dagupan Railway 1890’s
 American Colonial Period
• 1898 - Bureau of Public Works was established
• Establishment of Bureau of Government Laboratories 1901
• 1905 Replaced by The Bureau of Science
• December 08,1933 – National Research Council of the Philippines
• 1938 - Manila – Dagupan Railway became Manila Railroad Company
(Manila to Legazpi)
• 1946 – Bureau of Science was replaced by the Institute of Science
• Public School System was established
• Ex. University of the Philippines (Manila) was founded 1949
• During Commonwealth Era: Data and report from U.S. Economic
Survey that has many problems regards to Science and
Technology
 Post Colonial Period

• Modification of war jeeps for public transport

• Development on Rice, Corn, Coconut Research
• 1958- National Science Development Board was also established under the
Republic Act No. 2067
● also known as “Science Act of 1958”
Major shifts in the direction of Philippine Science
and Technology took place right after the
proclamation of independence in 1946.

• Reorganized into an institute of Science

There were also major shifts in the 1950s and
1960s that focused on Science and Technology
institutional capacity building.

• Infrastructure-support facilities
In response to these problems and to the need for
Science and Technology to generate products and
processes that were supposed to have greater
beneficial impact on the country.
 In the 1980s, research utilization was given
stronger emphasis.

• NSTA – National Science and Technology Authority

• PCHRD – Philippine Council for Health Research and Development
• PCIERD – Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research and
Development
• PCARRD – Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural
Resources Research and Development
• NRCP – National Research Council of the Philippines
 1987 – The NSTA was reorganized into the
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
by virtue of executive order no. 128 dated 30
January 1987.
The creation of the councils and research institutes
under the NSTA showed a clear shift in science
policy from one of a technology push to a
demand-pull strategy.
After the EDSA Revolution in 1986, the NSTA was
recognized into what is now called the
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
by virtue of Executive Order 128.
 For a more effective delivery of certain
functions, the DOST was further restructured,
resulting in the establishment of the:

• TAPI – Technology Application and Promotion Institute

• SEI – Science Education Institute
• STII – Science and Technology Information Institute
 The National Institute of Science and Technology
was reorganized into the present Industrial
Technology Development Institute.

• PCASTRD – Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology

Research and Development
• PCAMRD – Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine
Research and Development
 Industrial Technology Development
Institute.
• One of the DOST’s RDIs and undertakes multidisciplinary industrial R&D,
technical services and knowledge translation or technology transfer and
commercialization.

• Its R&D activities are focused on five major areas namely:

-food processing
-material science
-chemicals and energy
-environment and biotechnology and packaging
technology.
 Furthermore, the leadership of DOST placed
greater emphasis on massive technology transfer
activities. It also initiated specific interventions
through various programs such as the
Comprehensive Technology Transfer and
Commercialization (CTTC).
 Science and Technology services were also
provided to supplement R&D (Research and
Development) and Technology transfer:

• Upgrading of testing
• Standardization and quality control services
• Various forms of technical assistance and consulting
services
R&D institutes undertook contract researches to foster the
collaboration among the institutes, the private sector and
the academe. Furthermore, they initiated funding
assistance to technology developers and acceptors
through tie-ups with financing institutions such as the
Development Bank of the Philippines, Technology
Livelihood Resource Center,
Landbank, and Private Development
Corporation of the Philippines.
 To facilitate the transfer of foreign technology,
science parks were set up. These parks were
also intended to:

• Serve as vehicles for university interaction with private industry;

• Develop new knowledge-based industries and strengthen
existing ones; and
• Provide a propitious environment for innovation and
contract research.
In 1998, a presidential task force on Science and
Technology was formed to deal with the overall
problems confronting R&D and S&T
development in the country, and to formulate an
S&T development plan that would support the
national development goal of attaining a newly
industrialized country status by the year 2000.
 During the Ramos Administration, the DOST
initiated a Science and Technology Agenda for
National Development (STAND Philippines
2000), which embodied the country’s technology
development plan in the medium term, in
particular, for the
period 1993-1998.
 Summary of Science & Technology policy
programs in the Philippines

Modernization of the Production Sectors:

• CTCC ( Comprehensive Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Program)
• Support programs to the CTTC
• Investors
• National and regional technology fairs
• Technology financing programs
• Information Services
• DOST training Centers
• Regional and provincial S&T centers
• DOST Academy Technology Business Entrepreneurship Development
Program
• Technology business incubators
• Science and technology parks
• Global search for technology
• Program of assistance to investors
 Upgrading of R&D Activities

• R&D priority plan

• Grant-in-aids program
• Contract Research Program
• R&D Incentives Programs
 Development of R&D Infrastructure

• Manpower Development Program in Science and Engineering

• Grade School and Secondary school level
• Vocational and Technical Education
• Scientific Career System (SCS)
• Utilization of Filipino exports
• Recognition of S&T efforts
• Balik-Scientists Program Development of S&T culture
• Organizing and strengthening of S&T
 MAJOR
PERSONALITIES
IN SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 Gavino Cajulao Trono Jr.
1931 (90 yrs old)
• Is a Filipino biologist dubbed as the “Father of
Kappaphycus farming”
• Outstanding contributions in the field of tropical
Marine phycology with focus on seaweed biodiversity.
• National Scientist by virtue proclamation No. 737
signed by the former president Benigno Aquino.
 Eduardo Quisumbing
1895-1986

• Was a Filipino biologist, a leading authority of plants

in the Philippines.
• Pioneer in the study of Philippine medical plants.
• Recipient of the distinguished Service Star Outstanding
Contribution to the Field of Systematic Botany
• The plant Saccolabium quisumbingii is named after him.
• Author of more than 129 scientific articles, many on orchids.
 Fe Villanueva del Mundo
1911-2011

• Was a Filipina pediatrician, the founder

of the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines.
• First woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical
school in 1936.
• Conferred the rank and title of National Scientist
in 2010
• Credited with studies that led to the invention
of the incubator and jaundice relieving device.
 Maria Orosa Ylagan
1893-1945

• Was a Filipina food technologist, pharmaceutical

chemist, humanitarian and was heroine.
• Developed numerous culinary innovations such as Palayok Oven.
• Brains behind banana ketchup, soyalac, darak, calamansi in powdered
form, canning of native fruit and vegetables, and also the preservation
techniques.
• Captain in Marking Guerrillas, one of the hundreds of underground Filipino
units that battled the Japanese Occupation.
• The National Historical Institute installed a marker in her
honor at the Bureau of Plant Industry in Manila in 1983.
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