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Section

RESEARCH THRUSTS AND STRATEGIES

Consistent with the ASEAN 2015, Millennium Development Goals (MDG), national and regional S&T
goals, and challenges particularly on poverty alleviation and food security, cutting edge science,
natural resources management and sustainable development, the R&D thrusts of the University are
anchored on key banner programs:

● Knowledge and Technology Generation;

● Knowledge and Technology Management (KTM) or R&D utilization;

● Policy Research and Advocacy; and

● Capability Building and Governance.

A. Knowledge and Technology Generation

The University as a Higher Education Institution is supposed to be the generator of knowledge
and technology. Towards this end, it shall pursue this based on the following R&D thrusts and
strategies.

1. R&D Thrusts

For the generation of new knowledge and technology, the R&D thrusts of the University
are geared towards the conduct of basic, strategic, applied, technology development,
technology adaptation and integration, social science and higher education research.

● Basic research is either experimental or theoretical work undertaken to acquire new
knowledge of the underlying foundations or phenomena and observable facts without
any particular or specific application or use in mind.

● Strategic research is a research undertaking that links basic research and applied
research.

● Applied research is an investigation done to acquire new information directed towards
a specific aim or objective. It is drawn on existing knowledge gained from previous

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