MANILA, Philippines - The Technology Resource Center (TRC) is providing a venue for “commerciable” Filipino technologies and concepts and is inviting proponents, inventors, research and development institutions, angel investors and the business community to join and visit the exhibit.
TRC Director General Dennis Cunanan said this “Technology Showcase,” a feature of the Technology Partnering Forum 2010 slated at the Philippine Trade Training Center on Feb. 22-24, would give prospective exhibitors access to more than 5,000 visitors consisting of technology adopters, venture capitalists, and potential investors and buyers of specialized products and services.
“As such, the Technology Showcase will give them (exhibitors) prominent market exposure and vast opportunities for multiple business-to-business networking for joint-venture marketing, investment, research and development, and other possible tie-ups, including direct sale and supply contracts,” Cunanan said.
“The exhibitors can also take advantage of the TRC’s print and online promotional materials for the event and tap the agency’s marketing support facilities and services. Moreover, each technology exhibitor of new and indigenous technologies automatically becomes eligible for our Best of Show Award,” he added.
Prioritized for the exhibit are original Filipino technologies in herbal medicine, food processing, manufacturing, water treatment and utilization, alternative energy, biotechnology, and green technology, among many others, all with strong market potential for commercial application or can be used for various business purposes.
Also to be featured are support services such as computer programs, customized software, hardware and accessories, workshop and test laboratories and equipment, legal assistance for intellectual property rights (IPR) and other related activities that include a business matching service (BMS) to link up the exhibitors and visitors for possible business ventures.
The country’s leading research and development institutes, and several state universities and colleges, will also showcase their mature and market-ready technologies.
The BMS can help forge tie-ups between a developer and an investor/entrepreneur, an inventor and a technology adopter, a supplier and a buyer, a researcher and an information source, and even a borrower and a lender.
The BMS, therefore, will serve as the bridge to take a techno-preneur to his market or to his source of capital and other resources.
A pool of experts in various aspects of technology commercialization will be available to assist BMS clients. A TRC specialist-on-duty will handle post-event evaluation and follow-through.
Most of the attached agencies of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) such as the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI), Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC), and the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) will display the new technologies they have nurtured, Cunanan said.
The Technology Showcase forms part of the Technology Partnering Forum (TechnoForum) 2010 to mark the TRC’s 33rd year of promoting technology development as a means to boost business and national productivity.
The other components of TechnoForum 2010 are the Idea-to-Liquidity Technology Symposium, and the student-focused Innovation Opportunity Camp and TeknoBiz Idea Challenge, all guaranteed to turn this occasion into a technology festival of wide-ranging proportion.
Expected to attend the TechnoForum are seed and venture capitalists, economic developers, and members of academic institutions, engineering and science education communities, and public and private non-profit research institutes.
“Technology commercialization experts and corporate licensing executives will also be around to lend their expertise to overseas Filipino workers and other investing communities from around the country and abroad,” Cunanan said.
Interested exhibitors and TechnoForum participants may contact the TRC’s Technology Utilization and Commercialization Services Group at 727-6205 local 411 or 721-0094 or visit www.trctechforum.com for details.