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Stakeholder’s participation in the formulation of the Research Agenda.

Guidelines for Strategic Planning and Priority Setting of R&D Programs and Projects

ISU is a large but relatively young institution, its research and extension thrusts and directions are
geared towards nourishing degree level learning-teaching for the continued growth and development of
higher education in all campuses of ISU while at the same time promote the frontiers of knowledge by
seeking new technologies to improve community life in its various service areas.

Owing to the very limited financial resources of the University particularly for R&D and extension as
compared to instruction, R&D programs and projects must be maintained more effectively and efficiently. If
any of its R&D plans, programs and projects is to succeed, the various factors that will determine its intended

outcomes must be thoroughly identified and established. And this calls for an objective planning and
programming of its activities to minimize the occurrence of undesirable and unpredictable events that would
likely derail program/project/activity implementation.

The planning process starts with the establishment of a framework that represents the many intricate
relationships and sequences of events and activities discussed as follows:

The Planning Framework

Environmental scanning of the service area of the University

Based on the established vision, mission, goals and objectives of the University as articulated and
as understood by its various stakeholders to include the governing board, faculty and support staff, students,
farmers and various other clientele in the industry and other sectors, the first and fundamental step in the
planning process is the holistic scanning of the University’s service areas.

It is a known fact that the usual piecemeal research approach especially in the countryside often
resulted in fragmented and in-appropriate technical solutions. It is in this regard that the power of the
interdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary, or interdisciplinary research approaches shall be explored and
implemented where several researchers should look at a common problem, adopt a common framework,

and relate the findings of one discipline to the other. However, while the above approaches may be very
relevant, it is advisable to concentrate more on determining the potentials of the service areas in terms of
economic growth and development and how these growth and development objectives and processes can
be interwoven into the major functions of the University particularly along the generation, advancement,
dissemination and transfer of knowledge or technology, as desired.
The environmental scanning processes and procedures will be done as follows: