 But actually what I'm going to say is just a reinforcement of what some of you have been doing in your research groups So this is about how we did it in our in our research group So basically Yes, I came back from 1998 I Started a research group with four graduate students and now the group has Dramatically increased we have three professors one postdoc and Lots of graduate students, but the point for Sustaining that innovation you need graduate students. They are important mentoring is very very important My experience is you have to inspire them the same way that they also give you lots of ideas and energies and Yeah, that picture is they have taken 2006 so I still look young my Students look old Anyway, okay, I guess this is also one of the ideas we would like to Reinforce with with the policies of UP When I came back, I had no contract. There was no there was no I did not sign a contract I came back on my own one of the reasons I came back UP and the researchers before me had the vision to put up a Laboratory where I can work and maybe that's one way We can recruit the other Other Filipinos in returning. It's not so much of the contract It's the research environment that we are promising them so that they will thrive here in the Philippines It worked for me. It's working for my students so because of that we started with one equipment that's the one on the left and then To sustain the graduate students to to to provide them a better environment than the one I started I Had to get other grants I had to bundle grants and I've also else impressed on my students that this is the way of life that you are going to Do when you enter the academe? This morning somebody said that the humanities is one of You might it is teaches us or governs us science tells us what to do But why we're doing it? That's the realm of humanities and one of the phrase I keep on saying to my graduate students Why do we have to do this? Why do you have to get all of those grants so that the next student would be better? I Have this phrase that I heard somewhere so I can I'm going to ding ding about us So I can go supling in a go of my name in a book us so that I Keep on telling them that it's your responsibility to train the next set of scientists Make it better by doing very well research publishing so we're able to get all of those equipment Lessons learned there. Yes, you have to bundle grants. It's not going to come from just one research One funding agency you have to work with a private industry You have to work with a government you have to work with Chad with USD And that you have to coordinate with the admin officials procurement came up. That's one of the roadblocks We were fortunate that we were able to work hand-in-hand with the admin people trying to figure out How to make life a little bit easier for us so that we get our equipment if it's not possible What are the other ways of getting those equipment on time? and I think we have a Solution being proposed so we thank the admin for doing that Okay Some people are asking What what our group is doing just to give a perspective of the competition out there and what I tell to my graduate students? the urgency of doing very good research which we have to impress on them because the competition is tough we work on Molecular beam epitaxy for the dine scientists the word epitaxy we grow very very thin films And this is one of our work coupled with Some collaboration with Tsukuba University. We are coming up with Next-generation devices. Hopefully to make this so-called terahertz the next Wi-Fi. So that's that's one of our research This is actually work of dr. Simit up more on coming up with detectors for color-erritic Detection it's a new way of doing it by putting in a fluid The thing changes color and it could be specific. So that's the sum of the research that we've been doing and so Culture of innovation how how were we able to sustain it? We foster a culture of free exchange of ideas. We get it from our graduate students. We get it from the private industry Yes, we have to work with them. We get it from the sucs. It's not just you be alone We need the sucs to get the graduate students when they finish they return to their to their schools They bring in more students for us. So it's a cycle and yeah, last thing that Maybe just reinforce the idea of UP as a hub to recruit people you have to prepare a lab for them Give them all those benefits Mentoring takes time. So we have to find a way to have the workload fixed between teaching and research