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Creating wealth from R&D

April 2010 Vol. 3 No. 4

Making science

work for you

Inside

A proposed bill that seeks to roll out mature

and potentially important technologiesgenerated by government-unded researches

to the market was nally enacted into

law recently ater almost three years intolegislation.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

signed Republic Act 10055, otherwise known asAn Act Providing the Framework and Support

System or the Ownership, Management, Use,and Commercialization o Intellectual Property

Generated rom Research and DevelopmentFunded by Government and or Other Purposes

or the Philippine Technology Transer Act o2009 into a ull fedged national statute on

March 23 at the Malacaan Palace. The new

law is expected to serve as the blueprint ora nationally coordinated technology transer

ramework o government-unded researches.Department o Science and Technology

RP now has tech transfer law,DOST lauds passage

By Edge GanciaganS&T Media Service, PCARRD

Secretary Estrella Alabastro said that thewhole science community is overwhelmedwith this development.

We are optimistic that this new law,a landmark policy on technology transer

will revolutionize the commercialization otechnologies generated by researches unded

by taxpayers money, Sec. Alabastro said.

The enactment came ater Congressapproved in December 2009 the Senate version,

Senate Bill 3416, authored by Sen. Edgardo J.Angara and co-authored by Senators Manuel

Research outputs, which used to take ages

beore reaching the market, can now be

used by the public in a aster way. Clearingthe path or technology transer is Republic

Act No. 10055 which claries intellectua

property (IP) procedures that used to weigh

down commercialization o technologies in

the country. Signed into law on March 23

this year by Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

RA 10055 nally denes the ramework

and support system or the ownership

management, use, and commercialization

o IP derived rom government-unded

research and development (R&D)

Intellectual property (IP), as dened

by the new law, reers to the tangible

assets resulting rom the creative work o

an individual or an organization, including

creations o the mind, such as inventions

literary and artistic works, and symbols

names, images, and designs used in commerce

Also known as the Philippine Technology

Transer Act o 2009, RA 10055 essentially

spelled out guiding principles on several issues

that used to hamper the commercialization

o technology, such as ownership, sharing

and use o revenue, among others. With the

ironing out o these crucial concerns, the law

acilitates and systematizes the transer o

technology or knowledge rom the laboratoryto market, says Dr. Albert Aquino, head o the

Tech-Transer Technical Working Committee o

the Department o Science and Technology

Previously, research outputs take a

long time beore reaching the public as a

tangible product because o policy gaps. For

example, ownership o a research output

then was a toss-up among researchers

involved, research institution where the

research was done, unding agency, and al

other bodies that supported the research

New law hastenspublic use of

research outputsBy Framelia V. AnonasS&T Media Service, STII

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New DOST directors named

MIRDC upgrades LPG-checkfacilities

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Photocourtesyofwww.op.gov.ph


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New DOST directors named

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K+E+T+D+P is an equation. Just add all the

variables and the result is success. And Juan

S. Reyes Jr. solved that equation with fying

colors making him the new Director o the

Finance and Management Service-Department

o Science and Technology (FMS-DOST).

Jun, as he ondly called by his peers,

assumed the title Director IV o the FMS in

simple rites during the DOST Management

Committee Meeting on 08 March 2010 at

the Philvolcs Auditorium, Quezon City. He

was sworn in by DOST Secretary Estrella F.

Alabastro.

For more than three years, Reyes was

the Ocer-in-Charge o the FMS Oce o the

Director and held various positions within the

organization. His selection as FMS Director

was an example that knowledge + experience

+ training + determination + potentials is anequation that when solved properly is equal

to success.

Reyes has packed in 16 years o

dedicated service to DOST, starting as OIC o

the Budget Division in the FMS- DOST. Later, he

was promoted as Chie Administrative Ocer

(Management and Audit Analyst V) o the

Management Division, and was subsequently

named OIC o the Accounting Division-FMS

and, concurrently, OIC o the FMS.

Reyes, a Certied Public Accountant,

earned his BS Business Administration at the

K+E+T+D+P = Juan S. Reyes Jr., new FMS-DOSTdirector

University o the East. As a DOST scholar, he

obtained his Master in Business Administration

rom the Polytechnic University o thePhilippines.

On proessional aliations, Jun Reyes is

a member o various proessional organizations

such as the Philippine Institute o Certied

Public Accountants (PICPA), Government

Association o Certied Public Accountants

(GACPA), Association o Government Internal

Auditors (AGIA), Association o Government

Accountants o the Philippines (AGAP), etc.,

including DOST Employees Union, and DOST

Employees Association. (Josephine Darm,

Michelle Sulit, Aileen Casa, S&T Media Service)

With his high competence and extensive

experience as a orester and an environmentalresearcher, the Forest Products Research and

Development Institute o the Department oScience and Technology (FPRDI-DOST) sees

no sun setting in the horizon in this once

sunshine industry, the orest products.At the helm o FPRDI, DOSTs lead

agency in research and development orinnovative, and environmentally sae orest

products, is Dr. Romulo T. Aggangan, a

proessional orester with various publishedarticles in leading peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Aggangan took his BS and MS atthe UP Los Banos and his PhD in Biological

and Environmental Sciences at the MurdochUniversity, Perth, Western Australia. He led

several National R&D programs and projects

on National Furniture R&D. Currently, heis a member o the programs on national

Dr. Romulo Anggangan, FPRDIs ray of hopebiouels and the integrated R&D on

Jathropa curcas as eedstock or biodiesel.

His collaborative work at the SustainableAgriculture and Natural Resources ManagementCollaborative Research Support Program in

Southeast Asia (SANREM CRSP/SEA) has led tothe successul completion o this large multi-

disciplinary R&D program. His other project

involvements include the improvement andmaintenance o bamboo productivity or quality

timber and shoots, and the S&T program orindustrial tree plantation species or CARAGA.

He was Director o the Forest andEnvironment Research Division o the

Philippine Council or Agriculture, Forestry, and

Natural Resources Research and Development(PCARRD-DOST) beore joining FPRDI. He also

chaired several committees and as projectcoordinator to some international unding

agencies. (Joy M. Lazcano, S&T Media Service)

Edgar I. Garcia:Meticulous multi-tasking expert is newTAPI director

Always reerred to as the meticulous multi

tasking expert by those who had worked

with him, Engr. Edgar I. Garcias dynamicity

helped him move his way to the top post othe Technology Application and Promotion

Institute-Department o Science and

Technology (TAPI-DOST). He was appointed as

Director by Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro on

March 22, 2010.

Director Garcia, Egay to his riends, is

a graduate o Bachelor o Science in Chemica

Engineering at the National University in 1978

Engr. Garcia went to the University o the

Philippines Diliman or higher studies where

he obtained his Master o Statistics degree in

1986. He was recipient o Certicate o Merit

as College Scholar. In 1989, he received his

Postgraduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering

rom the Tokyo Institute o Technology

Tokyo, Japan where he was a research ellow

o the UNESCO and Ministry o Education and

Culture o Japan (MONBUSHO). At present, he

is completing his PhD in Food Science at the

University o the Philippines Diliman with al

academic courses completed.

Engr. Garcia joined the DOST system

continued on page 3

Photo courtesy of Dr. Aggangan

Photo by Henry de Leon, S&T Media Service, STII


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RP now has tech transfer...from page 1

Roxas II and Loren Legarda. Senators PiaCayetano, Gregorio Honasan, Panlo Lacson,

Aquilino Pimentel, Jinggoy Estrada and JuanMiguel Zubiri also served as co-sponsors.

At the House o Representatives, Cavite

1st District Rep. Joseph Emilio A. Abaya was atthe oreront o the Bills passage and served

as its principal author. Angara and Abaya chairthe Committees on Science and Technology

at the Senate and House o Representatives,

respectively.

Speaking at PCARRD (Philippine Councilor Agriculture, Forestry and Natural ResourcesResearch and Development) recently, Sec.

Alabastro expressed optimism o the laws merit

in uptaking technologies to the market as wellas preventing brain drain and out migration o

S&T proessionals, and encouraging studentsto pursue R&D studies.

A key provision in the law provides orincentives to researchers by according them

share in the royalties as well as allowing them

put up their own start up companies.The law was Sec. Alabastros brainchild,

having recognized the need or a national

backbone and ramework that would push

technology generation and application toits maximum potential through ecient

and coordinated transer capability andintellectual property assertions around the

country, similar to the Bayh-Dole Act in theUS.

The S&T czar also lauded President Arroyo

and Congress or taking into account such amuch-needed legislation or the science and

technology sector.Alabastro explained that taking advantage

o the new law would hasten the process o

technology commercialization and broadensthe scope o protection o intellectual property

rights in government RDIs.For the longest time, we rely mostly on

breakthroughs rom outside, while our local

technologies generated through public undsremain untapped or archived in laboratories

around the country. Hence, this is a signicantbreak or us to roll this out to the market and

be availed by the public, she added.

Engr. Arthur Cruz: Moving up MIRDCs ladder

Bringing the Metals Industry Research and

Development Center to new heights is not

new to this man who had a long time romance

with the industry since his younger days.

Engr. Artur Lucas D. Cruz, registered

mechanical engineer, was appointed Executive

Director o the MIRDC by DOST Secretary

Estrella F. Alabastro on March 22, 2010.

Engr. Cruz started as Junior Methods

Engineer at MIRD in 1977, and then rose up

to Division Chie, Department Manager, and

Director II, until he was promoted as Deputy

Executive Director III o the Oce o the

Deputy Executive Director or Research and

Once ully in place, the new law is

expected to provide the mechanism to allowimportant technologies to be commercialized

and be made available to the public.Dr. Patricio S. Faylon, PCARRD Executive

Director, meanwhile expressed elation with

this development. He described this as aleap or the inter-agency policy advocacy

collaboration and a eat in the Councils policydevelopment and advocacy mandate relating

to S&T development.

PCARRD, the central planning council oDOST in the agriculture, orestry and natura

resources has led the Departments eortsin the Bills legislative advocacy and public

awareness activities since 2006.Meanwhile, the technical and nancia

support given by the Intellectual Property

Oce (IPO) o the Philippines, DOST Planningand Evaluation Service, and DOST councils and

institutes were instrumental in the legislativeadvocacy o the law. Currently, DOST and

IPO are preparing the basis or the Acts

implementing rules and regulation (IRR).

in 1979 at the Food and Nutrition Research

Institute then joined TAPI in 1992. He joined

TAPI as Senior Science Research Specialist

and became Supervising SRS in 2004. He then

rose to becoming Chie SRS in 2007 and has

since then acted on various and concurrent

capacities within the Institute as ocer-in-

charge o the Oce o the Deputy Director and

the Oce o the Director.

Engr. Garcia has written and published a

number o country paper reports and technical

papers. Aware o the importance o education

and mentoring, Engr. Garcia continues to be

part o the academic community as a part

time lecturer at the Polytechnic University

o the Philippines (1987 to present) and the

Technological University o the Philippines

(1981 to present) where he teaches ood

science courses, Calculus, Statistics, and

Analytic Geometry to undergraduate technica

and engineering students. (Josephine Darm

Michelle Sulit, Aileen Casa, S&T Media Service)

Operations. He served as MIRDC Ocer

in-Charge rom 04 March 2009 until his

assumption to the top position o the Center

Cruz, a holder o a Career Executive

Ocer (CEO) IV rank, is one o the ewpeople who rose rom the ranks. In act, he

started his mechanical career as a helpein a small mechanical shop in Angeles

Pampanga in 1975 but was later hired asinstructor at the National University where

he took his BS in Mechanical Engineer. He

obtained his MBA rom the San SebastianCollege in 1977. (Joy M. Lazcano, STII, and

Marlyn Ramones, MIRDC, S&T Media Service)Photo courtesy of MIRDC

Edgar I. Garcia...

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Fires caused by liqueed petroleum gas

(LPG) cylinder have been quite common inthe country. From 1995 to 2000, the Bureau

o Fire Protection (BFP) o the Department

o the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

reported a total o 1,475 LPG-caused re

incidents throughout the country. From 2004

to 2008, BFP again recorded 756 res caused

by LPG tank explosions.

According to the LPG Association o the

Philippines, hal o the 12 million LPG tanks

in the country today are not t or public

use. The group also estimates that out o the

six million unt LPG tanks, three million are

or scrapping and could no longer be xed.

Another three million are or requalication or

or inspection and certication by concerned

government agencies

An LPG tank explodes and causes re

when it has considerable leak. This leak,

which may emanate rom the hose or rom the

burner, bursts once the LPG is ignited. Thus,

ensuring the saety o LPG cylinders becomes

o utmost importance in preventing re,

particularly in high density household areas.

The Metals Industry Research and

Development Center (MIRDC), an ISO/IEC 17025

accredited laboratory by the Department o

Trade and Industrys Philippine Accreditation

Oce (PAO), has upgraded its re prevention

acilities to address the growing problem on

MIRDC upgrades LPG-check facilities to

strengthen govt fre prevention initiativesBy Marlyn Ramones

S&T Media Service, MIRDC

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and Technology.

For comments, suggestions or queries,contact:

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LPG-related res. Among the tests conducted

by MIRDC on LPG cylinders are radiographic,

tension and bending, and bursting.

The radiographic testing detects internal

welding deects o the weld joint portion o

the LPG cylinder. It is exposed to radiation

with attached lm using an industrial X-ray o

300 kVA capacity.

Tension testing involves determining

the tensile properties o both materials and

weld joints (tensile strength, yield strength,

and elongation) using test samples machinedto specied dimensions, while bend testing

determines ductility o the weld joint. Both

tests are done using a

Universal Testing Machine(UTM).

Meanwhile, in the

bursting test, the nished

LPG cylinder is subjected

to a very high pressure

using a hydraulic system.

A burst testing equipment

is used to prove that the

LPG cylinder will not

rapture up to at least

our times its designed

pressure.

These testing

processes employed by theMIRDC are in accordance

with the Philippine

National Standard (PNS).

LPG cylinders require mandatory

certication issued by DTIs Bureau

o Product Standards (BPS) or local

manuacturers and importers. The local

manuacturers are required to secure

Product Saety (PS) mark, while importers

have to secure the Import Commodity

Clearance (ICC).

Recently, MIRDCs acilities and

expertise in providing technical

requirements were eatured in ABS-CBNs

morning television program Umagang Kay

Ganda in collaboration with the DTI-BPS.

in various ways. The absence o standard

procedures compelled concerned individuals

and institutions to enter into an agreement

that spelled out percentage o ownership o

everyone involved, as well as royalty ees.

Just like the preparation o any other

legal documents, nalizing o agreementswas quite complicated and took much time

and eort. Such condition slowed down

the transer o knowledge or developed

technologies to technology adoptors or venture

capitalists and, subsequently, to end users.

RA 10055 puts an end to ownership

questions by investing the IP ownership to

the research and developments institution

(RDI) that perormed the research. According

to the Act, RDIs are in a better position to

identiy the potential or economic use o

IPs and IP rights as they have the right

skills and management capability. The Act

however, exempts RDIs with previously written

agreements on the sharing, limiting, waiving

and assigning o IP and IP rights ownership

Likewise, the Act denes the rights

and responsibilities o government unding

agencies and RDIs, management o IPs, revenuesharing, commercialization and establishmen

o spin-o rms, use and compulsory

licensing o technologies, use o income

establishment o mechanisms, and others

For more details o the law, please

visit http://www.dost.gov.ph. The DOST

spearheaded the preparations o RA10055

which was avorably endorsed by the S&T

Committees in the Lower House headed by

Cavite 1st Dist. Rep. Joseph Emilio A. Abaya and

in the Senate headed by Sen. Edgardo Angara

New law hastens public use....from page 1

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