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mechanisms and protocols in various
R&D-related areas.
Diliman, a significant proportion of which
are funded through the newly-established
Source of Solutions Grant Program. A
number of projects are externally-funded.
However, it is not only through project
grants that the OVCRD has advocated for
Convergence through funding support.
Another mechanism it tapped was the
Research Dissemination Grant (RDG)
Program.

Ultimately, therefore, Convergence serves as
a springboard for equal recognition of
science and art, research and creative work,
and the different R&D stakeholders.
Stewardship: The Driving Principle
theme of Stewardship underscores
OVCRD’s commitment to responsible
planning and management of the
University’s R&D resources. This
commitment has been translated into a
number of significant changes in existing
practices and the institution of new

enhance the conduct of research and
creative work, the OVCRD took several steps
to rationalize the administrative framework
governing UP Diliman’s R&D program;
spearheaded the updating of the Institutional
Committees on Biosafety, Animal Care and
Use, and Ethics Review; and expanded its
support for the Research, Extension and
Professional Staff (REPS).
Intellectual property protection and
technology transfer, still a nascent function
of the OVCRD at the start of the Saloma
administration, advanced significantly in the
last three years. One of the facilitating factors
was the approval of the Revised Intellectual
Property Rights Policy of the UP System,
which served as the framework for public
access to UP Diliman’s theses and
dissertations, IPR provisions in
and OVCRD’s collaborations
with the Diliman Legal Office and the UP
System’s Technology Transfer and Business
Development Office.
institutionalization of the Technology
Transfer Program was further hastened
through initiatives that included the
publication of the
,