Progress on the bottom
Conclusion No. 18-KL/TW of the second plenum of the 14th Party Central Committee famous that Vietnam made notable progress in growing human sources for science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation in the course of the 2021–2025 interval.
In latest years, authorities businesses, analysis institutes, universities, and companies have adopted a variety of options to develop scientific, technological, and innovation-related personnel.
During the 2021–2025 interval, Vietnam National University, Ha Noi (VNU–Hanoi) launched 10 units of mechanisms to encourage the event of science, expertise, and innovation.
The college additionally carried out a scheme to draw excellent scientists and high-performing analysis teams, providing assist packages of as much as 150 million VND (5,600 USD) for papers revealed in journals ranked among the many world’s high 1%.
In 2025, it allotted round 100 billion VND (3.8 million USD) to precedence analysis areas, assist for robust analysis teams, funding in services and gear, and incentives for the institution of recent analysis institutes.
Assoc. Prof. Pham Bao Son, Vice President of VNU–Hanoi, stated that over the previous 4 years the college had attracted almost 500 PhD holders and established 50 main analysis teams.
Numerous globally famend scientists have been invited to guide analysis in fields akin to semiconductor supplies, quantum expertise, synthetic intelligence, knowledge mining, and social community evaluation.
Notably, VNU–Hanoi has signed strategic cooperation agreements with home and worldwide firms, in step with the Politburo’s Resolution 57 on breakthroughs within the growth of science, expertise, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation.
The cooperation focuses on scientific analysis, innovation, expertise switch, coaching of high-quality personnel, and addressing sensible, market-driven enterprise challenges.
Meanwhile, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) has recognized the University of Science and Technology of Hanoi as taking part in a central function in constructing an internationally recognised analysis college mannequin.
The college has carried out quite a few programmes collaborating with almost 100 Vietnamese scientists primarily based in France, the US, Hungary, and Japan.
It has additionally attracted international experts, established joint analysis teams, co-supervised doctoral candidates, shared databases and laboratories, and recruited and supported promising younger scientists with excellent analysis achievements.
According to Nguyen Thi Van Nga, Director of the Centre for Scientific Data and Information below VAST, in 2025 the academy revealed 2,437 analysis papers, together with 1,699 in worldwide publications.
It carried out 527 analysis initiatives at varied ranges, obtained 105 patents and utility answer certificates, and signed 836 contracts for analysis, expertise switch, and scientific providers, serving to to deal with main challenges confronted by ministries, businesses, and companies.
The outstanding transformation within the growth of scientific, technological, and innovation-related human sources has helped lay a strong basis for socio-economic growth.
According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, a workforce of greater than 2.3 million folks, mixed with an increasing tradition of entrepreneurship and innovation, has turned science, expertise, and innovation right into a direct productive pressure contributing to the State finances and macroeconomic stability.
Key challenges stay
Conclusion No. 18-KL/TW acknowledged that science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation haven’t but contributed considerably to progress, whereas mechanisms and insurance policies in these fields nonetheless face quite a few bottlenecks.
Therefore, it’s essential to strengthen public-private cooperation in attracting, coaching, and successfully utilising high-quality scientific and technological personnel; to construct, join, and develop networks of experts and scientists at house and overseas; and to considerably enhance mechanisms and insurance policies for attracting proficient people and specialists from each the home and worldwide expertise swimming pools.
According to Assoc. Prof. Dang Hoai Bac, President of the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, growing scientific, technological, and innovation-related human sources requires a significant overhaul of cooperation mechanisms amongst universities, analysis institutes, and companies to facilitate expertise switch and increase the sensible utility of analysis outputs amongst companies and authorities businesses.
Assoc. Prof. Son stated that as a substitute of universities and analysis institutes driving the analysis agenda, companies ought to proactively fee main analysis initiatives.
At the identical time, insurance policies aimed toward attracting worldwide scientists have to be reformed to make sure a beneficial working atmosphere and aggressive remuneration.
Prof. Tran Hong Thai, President of VAST, confused the necessity for clearer regulatory provisions in forthcoming coverage paperwork on mechanisms for the co-supervision of doctoral candidates, as a part of broader efforts to coach, entice, and successfully utilise scientific and technological personnel.
Doctoral candidates needs to be embedded within the strategic initiatives of analysis institutes, with a deal with areas the place the nation holds comparative benefits and has real growth wants.
Experts stated shut coordination amongst State administration businesses, analysis institutes, universities, and companies will enhance coaching high quality and serve the twin targets of high quality schooling and sensible analysis utility.
In addition, analysis actions require reforms to venture administration mechanisms in addition to monetary and funding insurance policies to be able to drive the event of scientific, technological, and innovation-related human sources commensurate with the calls for of nationwide transformation./. VNA