Minister Vu Hai Quan met with World Bank nation director Mariam J. Sherma in Hanoi on June 29 to debate key areas together with laboratory operations, expertise attraction, and know-how commercialisation.
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| Minister Vu Hai Quan meets with World Bank nation director Mariam J. Sherma. Photo: MST |
Minister Quan mentioned Vietnam is implementing key duties to grasp Resolution 57, together with growing a nationwide laboratory system, enhancing research capability, and encouraging know-how switch.
Based on World Bank proposals, the minister instructed strengthening cooperation in a number of areas: enhancing nationwide research infrastructure capability; bettering governance fashions and working laws for key and shared laboratories; coordinating platforms to deliver know-how from lab to market, linking research institutes, universities, companies, and startups in precedence fields akin to biotechnology, new supplies, and semiconductors.
He additionally proposed collaborating on monetary mechanism fashions, studying from worldwide expertise on the National Venture Capital Fund, with a give attention to co-investment, threat administration, and divestment, whereas strengthening high-tech human useful resource growth and attracting consultants to guide nationwide laboratories and research centres.
Sherma mentioned the World Bank needs to proceed its partnership with Vietnam via technical help, sharing worldwide expertise, connecting the non-public sector, and researching applicable monetary devices. She added that cooperation in expertise, research infrastructure, enterprise connectivity, and innovation finance can complement one another, contributing to Vietnam’s sci-tech growth objectives.
Both sides agreed to proceed technical exchanges and establish potential areas for concrete cooperation between the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) and the World Bank.
The MST is additional strengthening worldwide cooperation. At a reception for Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki on June 26, Minister Vu Hai Quan mentioned Vietnam and Japan have to construct sci-tech cooperation programmes primarily based on mutual profit, shared accountability, and long-term substantive outcomes.
On AI, Open RAN, and 5G, the minister mentioned safety and security are Vietnam’s high priorities. Welcoming preliminary cooperation between Vietnamese telecom carriers MobiFone and VNPT with Japanese enterprises, he confirmed the ministry helps tasks that deliver mutual advantages.
On National Innovation Day 2026, the ministry will formulate a concrete plan and focus on Japanese enterprise participation. The minister highlighted the occasion’s core message of, “Two nations, but one shared spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation.”
For the Vietnam-Japan Joint Research Programme, the minister mentioned he hopes tasks will safe enterprise participation, prioritise high quality, goal large-scale long-term initiatives, and generate merchandise with excessive sensible applicability.
On the Young Talent Exchange Programme, he said the ministry will assist its implementation and create new benefits for principal investigators below the NEXUS Programme to take part in exchanges and encourage younger scientists.
For the Vietnam-Japan Seminar on Semiconductors, the minister proposed that the ministry chair a panel dialogue to assist foster connectivity between enterprises within the two nations on this strategic know-how sector.
Ambassador Naoki mentioned he appreciated Minister Quan’s proposals and expressed Japan’s want to additional develop cooperation with Vietnam. He mentioned Japan hopes to strengthen enterprise participation in joint research programmes and scientific exchanges, whereas expressing hope for continued shut coordination and assist from the Vietnamese aspect.
On June 23, a delegation from the MST led by Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long visited Croatian Post to review worldwide expertise in common postal service supply as a part of efforts to assemble practices for drafting the revised Law on Post. The two sides exchanged expertise on common postal companies and state assist, with the Croatian aspect noting that the federal government gives annual monetary assist equal to roughly 10 per cent of Croatian Post’s whole income.
Earlier in May, the ministry’s delegation additionally held discussions with Thailand and Singapore on strengthening cooperation in digital financial system, AI and innovation.
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