Collaboration leads Innovation

One day, I was watching this news about the filipino inventor who sells his invention to other country because our government didn't want to buy his invention. I realized that we filipino can do some invention like other country does. And also

In the ABS-CBN News, the article “Philippine education ranked 'poor'” was published by Max V. de Leon of Business Mirror. On the article of Mr. de Leon, he quoted first what Guillermo M. Luz, co-chairman of National Competitiveness Council (NCC) said that “The Philippines ranks a poor seventh among nine Southeast Asian nations in the area of education and innovation”. A result from Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum shows that the Philippines didn't make at least the top 50 out of the 138 economies at any area in primary education. 99th out of 138 economies was the ranking of the Philippines. The Philippines is 69th in educational system, 112th in science and mathematics, and 76th on the Internet access. In other categories, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are ahead to Philippines.

Luz had a proposal “Greater collaboration on strategic plans and processes for industry and government for tighter cohesion.” He believes that if the universities and industries collaborate there will be an innovation or discoveries occur and the budget for other matters will be reduced. He also wanted that to minimize the number of colleges/universities in the country and to rationalize the system. He believes that there will be a few but better universities.

The article by Mr. de Leon tries to tell the readers that even if the Philippines ranked 8th in the Southeast Asia in the fields of education, science and mathematics, and innovation. The country only needs to collaboration of universities and industry for us to rank up to the statistics in education, science and mathematics, and innovation. I believe in this article collaboration of the two would be a bright idea it’s like a give and take. One will benefit from the other and vice versa.


I realized in this article that Philippines should help each other. The idea of collaboration of universities and industries will make big differences. Schools, universities and colleges would have funds for their needs on what they lack because there would be industry sector to support them. And Industries would have new discoveries that the universities contributed to them that will lead the country for innovation. If this happens I think the Kto 12 system would not be needed in the country.