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Priority
              Development         Research      Rationale/Objective     level
               Challenges           Areas          of Research
                                                                      (P/HP/UP)
         Weak link of MSMEs as  MSMEs           To conduct research     HP
         suppliers of inputs to   development    on financial,
         multi-national and big                  telecommunication,
         establishments that                     transport and
         dominate the                            logistics to facilitate
         manufacturing                           movement of
         subsector.                              knowledge,
                                                 technologies, goods
                                                 and services and to
                                                 link MSMEs in
                                                 domestic and global
                                                 markets.
                                                To conduct research
                                                 on Regional
                                                 Resource Mapping
                                                 of industries to
                                                 pinpoint proximity of
                                                 MSMEs as supplier
                                                 to manufacturing
                                                 firms.
         Delayed growth of the                 To identify the reasons    P
         small and medium                      of the failure or slow
         enterprises.                          growth of the MSME
                                               industry.
         Limited responsiveness  Labor          To identify key          P
         and relevance of        market          strategies or
         current education                       activities in
         curricula to labor                      developing culture of
         market demands and                      entrepreneurship
         industry requirements.                  among    the youth.
                                                To conduct Tracer
                                                 study/research on
                                                 employability of




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