Free IP protection screening for RICE inventors
ALL creative research entries of the 3rd Regional Invention Contest and Exhibit (RICE) will be screened for intellectual property (IP) protection, free of charge.
This is an incentive to encourage inventors joining the contest to coordinate with and trust TAPI agents to protect their ideas and help them create and improve their inventions, said Director Edgar Garcia, Department of Science and Technology-Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI) during yesterday’s RICE opening.
The exhibit will run until Saturday where the winning invention will be announced.
Winners of the contest will receive cash prizes ranging from P10,000 to P60,000.
More than 10 entries from different industries have joined this year’s contest.
The DOST has also partnered with the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry for this year’s RICE.
Teresa Chan, CCCI President, said that innovation is the best response to changing opportunities and may help in the country’s desire to attain inclusive growth.
“This is the opportunity of a lifetime,” she said. “One we cannot squander, especially in science, innovation and technology, she said.
“The challenge for all of us is to not only be on our toes, not only embrace change, but be in the forefront of positive change,” she said.
Among the inventions at the exhibit are solar-powered tracker; sound-proof material using coconut coir; and super shelter.
DOST SETUP Awardees
The DOST 7 yesterday also awarded its Technovation Award to the best DOST Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) Adoptor.
SETUP is a flagship program of DOST that assists small and medium enterprises upgrade their production and packaging and adopt technological innovations.
The Technovation Award is a recognition award to SETUP beneficiaries who apply technological innovations adapted with the help of DOST, and show marked improvements and competitiveness.
Bohol’s Vircap Light Metal Industries was awarded the Best SETUP Adoptor for 2015. The SME will represent the region in the National DOST SETUP Best Adoptor Award in July.
Runner up SMEs are Elena’s Bakery and Pasalubong Center from Siquijor, Habagat Outdoor Equipment Inc. from Cebu, and Southern Negros Agri-Fisheries Mutipurpose Cooperative (SONAMCO).
Ramon Liboro, DOST Assistant Secretary for climate change and disaster risk reduction added that events like this provide an ‘enabling environment for global competitiveness’.
We can address the challenges presented by the ASEAN Integration through maximum innovation of science and technology, he said.
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