The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued Decision No. 2685/QD-UBND, approving the “Science, Technology, and Innovation Potential Enhancement Program for the 2026-2030 Period.”
The program identifies science, technology, and innovation (STI) as the first drivers for the fast and sustainable progress of Vietnam’s largest metropolis.
Under this plan, the town goals to turn out to be a number one STI hub in Southeast Asia, possessing the capability to analysis, grasp, and commercialize superior applied sciences. This progress is anticipated to contribute on to financial progress, promote sustainable growth, and enhance the standard of life for its residents.
The program is constructed on an enterprise-centric mannequin, the place companies are the guts of the innovation ecosystem. Under this strategy, market demand and sensible growth necessities will function a basis for figuring out analysis tasks. Meanwhile, the State will act as a facilitator—perfecting establishments, commissioning key nationwide tasks, and coordinating sources for analysis, utility, and technology commercialization.
HCMC can also be shifting strongly towards an analysis mechanism primarily based on output effectivity, sensible applicability, and the added worth generated by scientific tasks. The metropolis will prioritize the event of S&T-based enterprises, modern startups, spin-offs, and modern small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
According to the precise targets set for 2030, complete social expenditure on analysis and growth (R&D) within the metropolis is anticipated to succeed in 2-3% of its GRDP, with non-state funding accounting for over 60%. The metropolis strives to implement a minimal of 50 S&T tasks yearly, with (*50*) least 40 tasks reaching last analysis or completion phases every year.
The metropolis additional targets an utility fee of (*50*) least 60% for analysis outcomes inside 12 months of mission completion. Additionally, the proportion of enterprises using analysis outcomes from institutes and universities of their manufacturing and enterprise actions is anticipated to succeed in (*50*) least 25%. By 2030, HCMC goals to supply (*50*) least 3,500 scientific articles within the Scopus/ISI techniques and file (*50*) least 500 mental property purposes, together with 300 for patents and utility options.
A notable goal of this system is the institution of (*50*) least 5 analysis facilities of worldwide normal in precedence fields. Furthermore, the town plans to develop a workforce of (*50*) least 5,000 younger science and technology professionals in the course of the 2026-2030 interval.