We raise the following issues:   When will the Philippines as a nation ever effectively cultivate the culture of creating?   Developed countries have made us users, buyers, and ahentes (or agents), mostly relegating our technical graduates into explaining how a system is installed, operated and maintained   Professionals that we all are, we are deeply concerned that if the environment which the Philippines presents to our graduates continue the way they are, technology in our country will continue to be shackled, thus encouraging other countries to keep on stealing our professionals and new graduates.   A policy related to technological innovation? t h calasanz