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ILOILO CITY—The government science and technology sector has spread out wider to the regions to establish more and better support facilities for startup businesses and in search of more investible solutions to the many challenges in society. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said its three planning councils -…
Senator-elect Loren Legarda (Facebook photo) MANILA -The programs under Republic Act (RA) 11293 or the Philippine Innovation Act has not received their PHP1 billion annual grant since the law was signed in 2019. Returning Senator Loren Legarda said on Tuesday she will push for an amendment to the 2023 General Appropriations Act if she sees no funding for RA 11293, which she authored, in the National Expenditure Program. "What are we debating and writing good legislation for if we are not funding it? Innovation is the way of today and tomorrow. You cannot totally ignore the Philippine Inno...
QUEZON CITY, Mar. 17 -- Sharing the commitment to support innovative startups as a way to boost national socioeconomic development, especially at this time when the government moves towards the new normal, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has joined hands with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to work together and help Filipino innovative startups get their bearings. This multi-agency collaboration is expected to be sealed via virtual presser on 22 March 2021 at 3:00PM through an official signing of...