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As the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) marketing and commercialization arm, the Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI) has created various programs to support its mandated functions in the areas of technology promotion, transfer and commercialization through technical and financial assistance and services.

In order to make its programs and services more accessible to stakeholders and the public, the Institute is continuously conducting massive promotional campaigns to highlight its activities, initiatives and accomplishments. Part of these is the conduct of the “Week-long Accomplishment and Culminating Activity of Special Projects” or WACAS. This virtual event aims to promote DOST-TAPI’s role in the overall innovation ecosystem and encourage Filipino inventors, innovators, researchers and tech-based entrepreneurs to avail its various programs and services.

WACAS centers on the various accomplishments of the following special projects:

1. The “Support to the Commercialization of 500 DOST-Generated Technologies and Strengthening the Country’s Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology Portfolios” or DOST 500 assisted the commercialization of technologies through the creation of IP database, IP portfolios, valuations, and freedom to operate reports.
2. The Technology Transfer Day showcased the Department’s portfolio of market-ready technologies.

PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

From 26–30 July 2021, DOST-TAPI will have a series of events that showcases the achievements of DOST 500 and Tech Trans Day in the form of inspiring talks and sharing of expertise, fun and learning sessions with the youth, and targeted opportunities for the media, investors, students, and the public

Online Contests to Support S&T Advocacies and Initiatives

1. Talk and Techs - an online contest that encourages netizens to publicly post and share a minute-video featuring their discoveries or realizations on everyday life in relation to science, technologies and innovations that have or will have significant influence/impact to economy, environment and communities.
2. TechPhrasis: Pagsulat ng Dagli – an online caption contest that encourages netizens to provide a narrative to select photos that will be posted in the DOST-TAPI official social media page. Photos will include captured moments from Technology Transfer Day and DOST 500 activities.
3. Tech-a-Minute – an online pitching contest that encourages netizens to publicly post and share a minute video pitching one of the DOST-TAPI’s featured technologies during the Technology Transfer Day celebrations. The list of technologies could be accessed in DOST-TAPI’s online and social media platforms.
4. Sanay-Sci – an online photo-essay contest that encourages netizens to publicly post and share a throwback photo with a caption, which narrates a personal anecdote/insights as to how science, technology and innovation have at some point in their life influenced/enriched their experiences, perspectives, dreams, advocacies, or their community. 

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List of Technologies: see downloadables section for the Tech booklets

WEEK-LONG PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

July 26, 2021

• Kalipunan Special Segment
  A science news-type segment anchored by Ms. Danicah Lagman
• Knowledge Sharing Webinar
  The Specialist: Strategic Insights on Emerging Methods on Intellectual Property (IP) Valuation
  A first of its kind, specialized packaged training that shall discuss the relevant issues and updates related to freedom-to-operate (FTO) and IP valuation methodologies in the country.
  • Assessing IP Quality and FTO through IP Analytics
  • Demystifying IP Valuation
    • The Qualitative and Quantitative Value of IP
    • Methods (Cost, Income and Market)
    • Determination of Final Value

Target Audience: IP and technology practitioners with working knowledge about FTO and IP valuation methodologies

Register: https://tinyurl.com/y46mcxmk
*due to limited slots, registration and acceptance is subject to review by the organizers.

July 27, 2021

• Kalipunan Special Segment
  A science news-type segment anchored by Ms. Danicah Lagman
• Virtual Presser
  An engagement with invited media representatives to talk about the DOST 500 and Technology Transfer Day Projects.

Target Audience: Media (by invite only)

• Publication Launch
  An Encounter with the Authors featuring Onward: A Decade of DOST Technologies, Made Lokal: Stories of Technology Commercialization, IP Valuation Manual, Freedom-to-Operate Manual, and Compilation of DOST IP Policies
• Live Demonstration of i-SIPAG Upgrade
  To showcase the upgrades made for the online system made that manages the IP requests made at DOST-TAPI

Target Audience: Researchers, inventors, scientists, innovators, and S&T personnel and advocates from the Academe, Government Agencies, and the Private Sector

Register: https://tinyurl.com/bepk3zxs

July 28, 2021

• Kalipunan Special Segment
  A science news-type segment anchored by Ms. Danicah Lagman
• Beneficiaries’ Day

TechGateway, Live!
One of the largest gathering and virtual platform for innovators to promote collaboration, increase awareness, and discover opportunities to benefit the intellectual Property (IP) ecosystem and innovation movers in the Philippines. This year's TechGateway Live! will not only showcase DOST-TAPI's achievements, contributions and services in the field of IP and Technology Commercialization but will also tackle different issues and challenges in the sector from the perspective of our clients

Part 1: Leveraging IP Tools in Technology Commercialization

• • Securing Investments: The Role of International Patent in Successful Deals
  • IP Valuation as Primer to Asset Monetization

Part 2: Initiating Traction through Negotiations and Propositions

• • Anatomy of a Winning Term Sheet: Experiences and Perspectives During Tech Trans Events
  • A Fair to Remember: Tips and Hints in Getting a Fairness Opinion Report Approval

Target Audience: Technology transfer and business development officers, researchers, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, and innovators

Register: https://tinyurl.com/fwx2dntj

July 29, 2021

• Kalipunan Special Segment
  A science news-type segment anchored by Ms. Danicah Lagman
• Science Youth Fest 2021: Making Ideas, Discoveries and Dreams Come True
  A youth-oriented webinar in collaboration with Invent School Program of DOST-TAPI that promises to be a fun-filled learning in science and technology. The event will feature experts from the government and industry to share their unique experiences in the realm of innovations and breakthroughs.

Watch out for prizes and giveaways!

The World of Inventions and Innovations

• • Discovering Intellectual Property (IP) Rights
  • Invention Development: Unlocking Our Creative Minds

Real Life Experiences: Dreams that Came True

• • Robotics and Reimagining the Future
  • Virtual Robotics Breeding Champions
  • Girls in Tech: Robotics Demonstration
  • Going Beyond: Filipino Techs Journeying into Emerging Mobile Applications and Innovations

Target audience: youth delegates who have interest in the science, technology and innovations.

Register: https://tinyurl.com/3mwrc844
*due to limited slots, registration and acceptance is subject to review by the organizers.

July 30, 2021

• Culminating Event
  A live-streamed finale to the week-long celebration. The culminating event shall highlight the activities conducted and accomplishments made. It shall also highlight the awarding ceremony for Gawad Kintal and other contests conducted online.

Gawad Kintal: Kwentong Itinatangi Ng Taon sa Agham, Industriya, at Lipunan
To fulfill the Institute’s mandate of promoting inventions, technologies, and services, Gawad KINTAL aims to give spotlight to commercialization stories that made the most weight or mark or impression in science, industry, and society.

Nominees
The nominees were pre-selected beneficiaries of the Technology Transfer Day Project who have successfully commercialized their technologies through the assistance of the project:

1. Portable Pellet Machine by the Central Luzon State University
2. LPG-Fired Spray Dryer by the Metals Industry Research and Development Center
3. Carrageenan Plant Growth Promoter by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute
4. Salt Iodization Machine by the Industrial Technology Development Institute
5. Ready-to-Eat Arroz Caldo by the Industrial Technology Development Institute
6. Charcoal Briquetting by the Forest Products Research and Development Institute