A study conducted by the Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) on public and private expenditure on research and development, showed that the very limited R&D (research and development) resources were inefficiently allocated among various sectors. The study showed that there is severe shortage of R&D personnel in the country and that linkage between the government-funded R&D institutions with the private sector is quite weak. According to the study, this is evident in the under-utilization by the industries of technologies developed by various R&D institutions like, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
