BICOL UNIVERSITY Graduate School Legaspi City

Dear Sir/Madam; The undersigned is undertaking a study entitled Assessment of Developed Products of Sorsogon State College: Status and Prospects. It is an assessment of outputs of the College in terms of Research and Development and a gauge on the prospects of development in its four fold mandates. Rest assured that your responses will be held highly confidential and will be strictly used solely for the study. Thank you very much. FELY A. HABLA Researcher

Assessment of Developed Products of Sorsogon State College: Status and Prospects

Basic Information: Name: _______________________ Age __________ Gender______(Male) ______(Female) Position/Designation: __________________ Educational Attainment ________PhD./Ed.D ________MS/MA ______BS/BT/AB____Others_____ Part I. Developed Product of SSC 2005-2010. Kindly filled up the table below for the needed data. Title of Research Product Developed Year Completed

II. Status of the product developed in terms of : Kindly check on the table that represents the status by making use of the Likert Scale and please refers to the definition given below. 3 Extremely Practice 2 - Moderately Practice 1 Non Practice Production/Com Application mercialization 3 2 1 3 2 1

Product

Verification 3 2 1

Patent 2 1

Verification if it can be incorporated in a package of technology that has potential for improving existing farmers practices. Application - Demonstrate the feasibility of actually using a technology using the community-based approach. Commercialization an activity involving the application of technologies on a commercial scale by identified entrepreneurs or used primarily to increase ones income/profits and productivity in a much wider scale. Patent - Registered and bears the Intellectual property Number.

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Issues/problems confront in the project commercialization. (Please rank your choice or preference: from rank1 most evident to 10 least evident) No. Issues and Problems Rank 1 Inadequate financial support for faculty researchers. There are enabling mechanism to sustain research productivity of 2 the faculty. The research outputs are not communicated properly to the end 3 users. Available equipments cannot sustain the production of the 4 developed product. 5 Difficulties in Patenting the developed product. Chemical and proximate analysis of the developed product 6 particularly in food security is of high. 7 Availability of a) Packaging material b) cost. 8 Existing equipments are of old models. 9 Researchers lack time to do the commercialization due to heavy workloads. 10 The Institution has no sufficient fund to sustain the commercialization process. 11. Lack of office in the institution to take charge of commercialization/marketing of products. Others: Pls. Specify Proposed management plan of action for strengthening product development policies. (Please rank the order of choice: Rank 1 most preferred to 10 least preferred.) No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Proposed Management Plan of Action Rank Purchase equipment needed for production purposes to sustain and commercialized the developed products. IP registration be made possible by the R&D Director. Adequate financial support to the researchers should be taken into account. Chemical and Proximate analysis of the developed product be made within the college whenever apparatuses are available. License and expert Food Technologist is highly needed to be a partner in the developed product. De loading of the researchers be taken into account. Look for a partner agency/industry for the sustainability of the commercialized product. Sustainability of the supplies for the developed product be answered by the administration as suggested and recommended by the researchers. Specific laboratory area for the production/commercialization/marketing section of the developed product be provided and operated. Coordinate with the R&D and Extension services to disseminate the developed products to the stake holders. Office that would take charge of the Registration/commercialization/marketing of products be taken into account.

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9 10 11

Others: Pls. Specify