DAVAO CITY—The University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin) and Palafox and Associates, one of the country’s top urban planning firms, are collaborating on the master plan for the planned Knowledge Innovation Science and Technology (KIST) Park.
Located inside the sprawling UPMin campus in Bago Oshiro, Davao City, the 12-hectare KIST Park will host state-of-the-art laboratories and other innovation infrastructure.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds the KIST Park project through the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) Pristine project.
Pristine (Promoting Research and Innovation to Strengthen Transformation of Industries and Enterprises) is a proposed US $400 million…