- 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