Innovation is shaping the way forward for growth, enabling Vietnam to turn out to be not solely a frontrunner in innovation, however a worldwide beacon of creativity.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Xuan Dinh mentioned that if science creates new data, and expertise creates new instruments, then innovation is the bridge that transforms data and expertise into merchandise, companies, and sensible worth.
“In recent times, Vietnam’s system of policies and laws on science, technology, and innovation has been perfected, contributing to the formation of institutional conditions for the national innovation system. Strategic technology development programmes are focusing on foundational areas such as AI, big data, biotechnology, new materials, and new energy, demonstrating a clear shift from technology adoption to proactively mastering and developing technology,” he mentioned.
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| Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Xuan Dinh. Photo: MST. |
This 12 months, the MST chooses two themes: “Innovation – Breakthrough Action, Spreading Results”, and “Innovation – Transforming Faster and Stronger to Turn Ideas into Value, Aspirations into Reality”.
These themes concentrate on shifting from consciousness to decisive motion, creating concrete outcomes with the potential for widespread influence in society; whereas asking acceleration, improved organisational capability for implementation, and shortening the method from thought to utility and commercialisation.
A key focus of this 12 months’s celebration is encouraging the position of stakeholders within the nationwide innovation system. In specific, analysis institutes, universities, and the scientific group play a core position in creating new data, growing core applied sciences, coaching high-quality employees, and offering scientific arguments for growth.
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The enterprise group sits on the centre of the system, absorbing, mastering, and commercialising expertise whereas embedding innovation in manufacturing and enterprise practices. It is anticipated to proactively fee analysis, participate in testing, and lead the adoption of recent options and merchandise.
For state companies, the position extends past establishment constructing to main and organising efficient implementation. This consists of figuring out growth challenges throughout industries and localities by the lens of science, expertise, and innovation, and coordinating assets to ship tangible, broad-based outcomes.
Addressing the occasion, Pauline Tamesis, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Vietnam, mentioned the UN’s Global Digital Compact requires closing divides, increasing inclusion, and guiding innovation responsibly. In Vietnam, she famous, this imaginative and prescient aligns carefully with Party Resolution 57, which locations science, expertise, and innovation on the core of nationwide growth.
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| Pauline Tamesis, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Vietnam. Photo: MST. |
“UNESCO’s work on AI and culture already shows us how technology can converge with responsibility. In Vietnam, initiatives like the Hanoi Creative City programme demonstrate how youth, policymakers, and creators are shaping a more human-centered future for AI,” she mentioned.
“But creativity does not thrive in isolation. It flourishes in ecosystems where governments, businesses, academia, and communities – especially young people – work together. The Global Digital Compact encourages this collaboration. Resolution 57 gives it national momentum. Together, they align global vision with local action.”
As a part of the occasion, the discussion board on growing the system of innovation centres was organised as an area for alternate and dialogue, the place individuals targeted on clarifying the position, organisational mannequin, working mechanism, and coverage implementation for innovation centres in Vietnam.
The discussion board proposed options to boost the position of those centres as efficient middleman establishments in trying to find, connecting, and inspiring the applying of modern options, contributing to fixing issues of industries, sectors, and localities; offering help companies for the applying, switch, and innovation of expertise.
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