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| Scientific researchers work on the Biotechnology Laboratory, International University underneath the Việt Nam National University, HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Vũ |
HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Science and Technology is urgently finishing 5 new draft laws to create a authorized framework to advertise science and technology, innovation and digital transformation with hopes of getting the laws handed within the coming months.
The laws being labored on are the Law on Digital Transformation, the amended High-Tech Law, the amended Law on Intellectual Property, the amended Law on Technology Transfer, and the Artificial Intelligence Law.
Deputy minister Lê Xuân Định stated: “The amendments to these laws aim not only to update practice but also clearly show the determination to remove institutional bottlenecks, which have long been seen as major barriers to the development of science and technology, innovation and digital transformation.”
The draft Law on Digital Transformation defines digital surroundings administration and administration because the default, with paper-based administration as an exception.
The state is chargeable for making certain that each one residents – no matter age, gender, schooling degree, geographical or financial situations – have the chance to entry and use on-line public providers.
These techniques should adjust to worldwide requirements, have user-friendly interfaces, multilingual assist, supply signal language and assistive varieties for individuals with disabilities.
The platform should be appropriate with many gadgets and have instruments to assist residents in distant and particularly tough areas.
The draft additionally requires designing on-line public providers in accordance with individuals’s life occasions and enterprise lifecycle, aiming for personalisation acceptable to people and organisations.
State companies should coordinate to offer providers in occasion chains relatively than fragmented by administrative authority. Citizens and enterprises solely want to offer data as soon as, with seamless, uninterrupted processing that saves time and prices.
The proposed amendments to the High-Tech Law goal to advertise technological autonomy, kind strategic industries, enhance the effectivity of high-tech zones, and encourage Make in Việt Nam enterprises.
The draft defines technology not solely as a area of funding incentives but additionally as a strategic pillar making certain financial safety, nationwide defence, and sovereignty.
The regulation provides ideas of strategic technology and strategic business for centered growth. Incentive insurance policies are redesigned for transparency and effectiveness, expanded to home enterprises and start-ups. Core applied sciences, strategic applied sciences like synthetic intelligence (AI) and semiconductors obtain particular incentives with commitments to technology switch for nationwide profit.
The amended Intellectual Property Law comprises adjustments aiming to remodel Vietnamese analysis outcomes and innovations into belongings that may be purchased, offered and traded, transferring in the direction of an financial system the place mental property (IP) contains a good portion, as in developed nations.
The draft permits mental property rights to be valued, traded and used as belongings, marking a shift from mere safety to creating belongings, commercialisation and marketisation of analysis outcomes.
Intellectual property turns into a strategic aggressive device for enterprises and the nation.
The draft prioritises buying IP rights associated to necessary nationwide safety, socio-economic merchandise, creating an IP ecosystem and encouraging funding in start-ups. Owners can decide worth and asset lists for administration if values will not be but recorded in accounting.
The draft of the amended Technology Transfer Law goals to finish the authorized framework and promote efficient, synchronous and internationally aligned technology switch actions.
The new Technology Transfer Law draft simplifies administrative procedures, updates the checklist of new and strategic applied sciences and widens incentives for switch actions.
It provides provisions on middleman organisations for technology switch, a typical mannequin overseas however missing in Việt Nam, serving to small enterprises and deprived localities entry and grasp new applied sciences.
The draft additionally strengthens cross-border switch management to make sure technology safety and foster Vietnamese technology export.
AI is creating sooner than the tempo of institutional constructing, making a authorized hole, particularly in figuring out legal responsibility when AI causes injury. This subject is predicted to be addressed by new laws within the draft Artificial Intelligence Law.
The draft promotes AI pillars – Việt Nam AI infrastructure together with nationwide computing and knowledge infrastructure, core platform fashions and applied sciences, human assets and mental group, utility and innovation ecosystems, regulation, requirements and AI security. — VNS