Science and technology in the Philippines is managed by the Department of Science and Technology, with sectoral councils also responsible for specific areas like agriculture, forestry, and health. The topic encompasses both science, defined as building knowledge through systematic investigation of nature, and technology, referring to the techniques and processes used to develop goods, services, and achieve objectives, with the goal of documenting the country's scientific and technological progress and analyzing related policy issues.
Science and technology in the Philippines is managed by the Department of Science and Technology, with sectoral councils also responsible for specific areas like agriculture, forestry, and health. The topic encompasses both science, defined as building knowledge through systematic investigation of nature, and technology, referring to the techniques and processes used to develop goods, services, and achieve objectives, with the goal of documenting the country's scientific and technological progress and analyzing related policy issues.
Science and technology in the Philippines is managed by the Department of Science and Technology, with sectoral councils also responsible for specific areas like agriculture, forestry, and health. The topic encompasses both science, defined as building knowledge through systematic investigation of nature, and technology, referring to the techniques and processes used to develop goods, services, and achieve objectives, with the goal of documenting the country's scientific and technological progress and analyzing related policy issues.
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Science and technology in the Philippines describes scientific and technological
progress made by the Philippines and analyses related policy issues. The main agency responsible for managing science and technology (S&T) is the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). There are also sectoral councils for Forestry, Agriculture and Aquaculture, the Metal Industry, Nuclear Research, Food and Nutrition, Health, Meteorology, Volcanology and Seismology. Science and technology is an interdisciplinary topic encompassing science, technology, and their interactions: Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of explanations and predictions about nature and the universe. Technology is the collection of techniques and processes used in the production of goods or services, or the accomplishment of objectives such