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| New modern fashions intention to construct helpful datasets appropriate for Vietnamese use, Photo: Le Toan |
At a discussion board on innovation and strategic applied sciences final week in Hanoi, Permanent Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan acknowledged that expertise is reshaping nationwide energy and world worth chains. Therefore, Vietnam wants a brand new method if it needs to rise amid intense competitors.
He famous that Vietnam has recognized key impediments, and declared that Vietnam should grasp expertise to realize speedy and sustainable growth, whereas additionally strengthening nationwide defence and safety.
The prime minister has already issued a listing of practically a dozen strategic expertise teams and 35 key product classes, together with AI, semiconductors, blockchain, and robotics, to drive the event of precedence sectors.
To implement this successfully and shortly, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) is growing strategic expertise schemes by standardising foundational pillars, protecting core applied sciences, infrastructure, and personnel. Each pillar clearly defines context and goals, scope and methodology, anticipated outcomes, timelines, budgets, and analysis standards.
Then, duties might be transformed into analysis tasks and initiatives to name for participation from enterprises, universities, analysis institutes, ministries, sectors, and localities. Gradually, primarily based on the implementation of those applied sciences and strategic merchandise, they’ll construct an innovation ecosystem.
“The MST invites experts, scientists, businesses, institutions, especially innovation alliances, to advise on this implementation approach,” Quan mentioned.
Technology enterprises, networks, and specialists on the occasion shared their strategies to advertise innovation and implement strategic applied sciences in Vietnam. Nguyen Van Khoa, CEO of FPT, emphasised that innovation will not be sure by rules or monetary guidelines. It is the soul of growth and an organisation’s most respected intangible asset.
“In the most critical resolutions today, innovation is positioned as the core, nucleus, driver, not only at the national level but also within enterprises. It will become the DNA of an organisation and transform into a valuable culture,” he mentioned.
Khoa famous that over 37 years of development, FPT has made innovation a core worth nurtured as a sustainable tradition, ranging from the smallest duties. “In 2025, over 5,000 initiatives from FPT’s 84,000 employees across 30 countries have helped save nearly VND800 billion ($32 million) in operational costs. Many of these ideas came from operations, design, and sales teams,” he added.
To flip innovation into actuality, Khoa argued that Vietnam should enhance its authorized framework for rising sectors resembling high-tech, logistics, and AI. “Many resolutions exist, but there is lack of concrete enforcement mechanisms, no specific laws or decrees to drive the vision. The government must act swiftly,” Khoa mentioned.
Thieu Phuong Nam, CEO of Qualcomm Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, famous that the group has been in Vietnam for over 20 years and considers it a key hub. In June, the corporate inaugurated a analysis and growth (R&D) centre in Hanoi, now one in all its largest globally. The engineering group, totally Vietnamese, is concerned in cutting-edge tasks whose merchandise are used domestically and internationally.
“AI will change the way we interact with technology. This is an opportunity for Vietnam to participate more deeply in global value chains,” Nam acknowledged.
In the AI area, the ViGen venture has been launched by collaboration between Meta, the National Innovation Centre (NIC), and AI for Vietnam. It goals to construct a Vietnamese language dataset protecting levels from preschool to college.
According to Tran Viet Hung, co-founder of AI for Vietnam, it’s going to generate a 50-billion-parameter dataset and 5 Vietnamese language analysis units to coach AI fashions. “The major challenge is that Vietnamese is not naturally supported by international AI models. ViGen aims to fill this gap. It also encourages public data contributions, where each participant earns points that can be converted into tangible rewards,” he mentioned.
In cybersecurity, Ngo Tuan Anh, chairman of the ViSecurity Network, launched the Vietnam Open Cyber Range initiative, an open coaching platform involving universities, analysis institutes, and companies.
“It is also open in its operation model, enabling institutions and cybersecurity enthusiasts to easily access and utilise it,” he mentioned. “Our goal is to create a high-level training platform that addresses Vietnam’s demand for quality cybersecurity talent.”
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung mentioned that previously month alone, Vietnam has launched three innovation networks in quantum expertise, cybersecurity, and aerospace. Along with the beforehand established AI and semiconductor networks, these are hubs of collective intelligence, gathering high Vietnamese minds globally to deal with nationwide, regional, and world challenges.
Meanwhile, Japanese companions, led by the Mitsubishi Research Institute, have pledged cooperation in startup incubation and tech workforce growth in Vietnam. Qualcomm and Meta have dedicated to increasing R&D collaboration and provide chain growth within the nation.
A Vietnamese chip design startup, Hyphen Deux, incubated by the NIC and supported by the semiconductor innovation community, has gone world, with its management chips now manufactured by TSMC. “These are foundational steps and clear evidence of the strong commitment and concrete actions taken by Vietnam’s innovation ecosystem in recent times,” DPM Dung declared.
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Innovation and digital transformation – the second innovative era for Vietnam
Over the previous 80 years, science and expertise have accompanied the nation by wars, the nation development, and step by step introduced Vietnam into integration and growth. Today, we’re getting into a brand new period – the period of AI, inexperienced vitality, and the digital financial system. This is the time when data, innovation, and expertise are a very powerful manufacturing sources. |