The institutional vehicle through which the discipline is consolidated — hosting research across the four domains, educational programmes, and the apparatus a maturing science requires.
The Institute does not begin from nothing. Likhaan and its continuing educational programme, The InventSchool, marked fifty years in 2023, across a documented lineage that runs from the Samahar Roving School of the late 1960s, through Imbensyon Pilipino and a succession of research entities, to the present Institute. Over that half-century the work was carried forward with named partners including the Philippine Inventors Commission and its successor agencies under the Department of Science and Technology, the Development Academy of the Philippines, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United Nations environment and development programmes, the Department of Trade and Industry, and the World Bank.
Originator of Creatology and author of its foundational and contemporary works. He has carried the research programme forward across five decades, from the 1972 founding pamphlet to the present institutionalisation of the discipline.
Co-author of the 1972 founding pamphlet and co-originator of the discipline. Cortez passed away many years ago and is honoured throughout the Institute's work for his foundational contribution.
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