Over the previous 80 years, science and expertise have accompanied the nation by wars, the nation development, and progressively introduced Vietnam into integration and growth. Today, we’re getting into a brand new era – the era of AI, inexperienced power, and the digital financial system. This is the time when data, innovation, and expertise are the most necessary manufacturing sources.
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| Nguyen Manh Hung, minister of Science and Technology |
Forty years in the past, the nation started an era of integration and growth of a socialist-oriented market financial system. Now is the era of innovation and digital transformation, constructing a brand new ecosystem the place companies, scientists, folks, and the state take part in creating worth
While the purpose of the first era was to flee poverty, the second is to flee the middle-income lure and change into a developed nation with excessive revenue. The first took agriculture, trade, processing, and meeting as the driving power; whereas the second takes sci-tech, innovation, and digital transformation as the central driving power for growth.
Building a nationwide innovation system should align with the wants of companies and society, a startup nation based mostly on digital tech and creating establishments and digital instruments for companies.
Digital transformation should be accelerated for all folks in a complete method. It should happen in all areas and in any respect ranges, overlaying infrastructure, information, abilities, and community security and safety.
For Vietnam to meet up with the era of AI, the digital financial system, and the inexperienced financial system, driving forces are being implementing by the ministry, making a synergistic energy. science and expertise offers the data basis and technical instruments; innovation transforms that data into new merchandise, companies, and enterprise fashions; and digital transformation opens up area for deployment and growth of software scale at excessive pace and low value.
We require the constructing of a nationwide innovation ecosystem, with enterprises at the centre, scientists at the core, and the state enjoying the position of an enabler and chief. Vietnam should additionally grasp expertise. Without this, it should proceed to be caught in the low worth chain, caught in center revenue, and unable to resolve the nation’s future.
Other duties embody constructing infrastructure to implement digital transformation, digitalising networks, popularising companies, and boosting the software of IT and e-government.
The Law on Digital Transformation that we’re drafting will fill in the lacking items and can be a framework regulation to unify and join associated legal guidelines to be able to kind an entire digital structure framework. The regulation will assist create a digital information administration mechanism, institutional framework for related platforms and companies, personnel and abilities, threat administration, and far more moreover.
When it involves personnel, elite intellectuals and innovative entrepreneurs are the basis for us to grasp strategic expertise and take part extra deeply in the international worth chain.
There must be a coverage to arouse the want for creativity, linking analysis with manufacturing practices in order that science and expertise can actually change into a nationwide driving power. Sci-tech should originate from manufacturing and return to serve manufacturing.
The Law on Science, Technology, and Innovation that the National Assembly has simply handed is one other main step ahead. Other legal guidelines that we should full in 2025 are these on excessive expertise, tech switch, and mental property.
Ultimately, we’ll do extra in the direction of fixing nationwide issues and boosting financial development, and that’s the finest option to proceed to good the establishment.