R&D Strategic Directions

• Develop a faculty, staff and student research program

• Implement functional and relevant research programs

• Develop and manage technologies and information

• Establish and upgrade research facilities/centers

• Enhance the fiscal resource base for research services

STRATEGIES

• Develop and implement a comprehensive college-based R and D agenda in the University

• Aggressively encourage program/commodity/ecosystem-based trans-disciplinary research and enhance faculty-staff-student and junior-senior research partnerships

• Align Undergraduate and Graduate theses and postdoctoral researches to a specific college-based R and D agenda in the University

• Encourage faculty members to adopt research methods as teaching strategies

• Conduct an intensive faculty, staff and student R and D capability development program

• Provide seed money and other incentives to researchers such as in paper presentations and publications in refereed journals

• Produce a compendium of faculty, staff and student researches on a yearly basis

• Implement a knowledge and technology management program

• Establish and Implement an R and D facility modernization program

• Collaborate with relevant local, national and international R and D agencies in technology generation to commercialization

• Enhance monitoring and evaluation activities

• Use judiciously research fiscal resources

• Strengthen research, extension and production interfacing activities