THE Philippine Trade Training Center on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, is the venue of the 2005 National Inventors’ Week which will be held up to November 21, 2005. This yearly expo-fair showcases Filipino-made products, processes, and technologies. This year’s theme is "Inventors (Technopreneurs): Source of Export Competitive Production." It emphasizes energy-related inventions and innovations made by Filipinos and highlights their creative capacities.
Inventions and innovations are the foundations of economic growth. They foster economic activities through commercialization of these inventions. These, in turn, generate job opportunities and wealth in the country.
The Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has given impetus to the fostering of a climate conducive for inventors. During its National Science and Technology Week celebration last July, DoST launched a program dubbed "Inventors’ Enterprise Development Zone." This program integrates technology and entrepreneurship and aims to offer special entrepreneurship and business courses, including intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and assistance. It provides Filipino inventors a place where they can work, experiment, research, and develop their inventions.
The Filipino is creative and inventive. Vitamin B, Erythromycin antibiotic, the Parker ink, fluorescent lamp, the microchip are some of the Filipino inventions and innovations that have benefited the country and the world at-large.
Dr. Jose P. Rizal extolled Filipino ingenuity when he said that genius is universal; it is as free as the air we breathe and no race or country has a monopoly of it.
Making the Filipino inventive and innovative is one goal that we must promote in our people. Creativity, to cite one innovator, is the only limit of humanity.
