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| Minister of Science and Technology Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng and the ministry’s management on November 27 launched real-time online management system for science and technology tasks. — VNA/VNS Photo |
HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) held a ceremony on Thursday to launch a real-time online management system for science and technology tasks, marking an necessary step ahead in digital transformation and innovation in Việt Nam’s analysis management.
Minister of Science and Technology Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng confused that the online management system is just not solely a brand new technological product but in addition a basis for reforming science and technology governance. It represents progress in the direction of data-driven management, digital processes and worldwide requirements.
Reforming science and technology requires reforming its management: shifting from management to motivation, from administrative oversight to data-based and clear operation and from fragmentation to integration and standardisation, in response to Minister Hùng.
The new software program system will enhance the standard of value determinations, shorten approval occasions, minimise errors and dangers, and allow correct evaluation of every process’s contribution. Importantly, it can assist form a extra skilled market for science and technology tasks.
Minister Hùng underscored the necessity for much less management, extra steering; much less management, extra facilitation, shifting from a permission-based method to openness and transparency.
The domestically developed software program is on par with worldwide platforms and can join with programs in developed international locations for co-funding. Local growth ensures steady enchancment aligned with each worldwide requirements and Việt Nam’s wants. The minister known as on scientists, councils and host establishments to actively use the system and deal with it as an important instrument in analysis actions.
At the ceremony, greater than 300 initiatives had been signed by way of digital contracts between NAFOSTED and host organisations.
These are the primary initiatives to be signed underneath the spirit of the brand new Law on Science and Technology, which shifts from input-based to output-based management, from bureaucratic paperwork to results-based oversight, from funds allocations to lump-sum funding and from returning analysis outcomes to the State to granting possession rights to analysis organisations, with analysis groups receiving not less than 30 per cent of commercialisation proceeds.
Evaluation now considers not solely completion of the analysis process but in addition the supply of outcomes to enterprises, the creation of economic merchandise and contributions to GDP. The new mechanism encourages risk-taking, tolerance for failure and a deal with main strategic tasks.
Science and technology tasks are divided into three tiers: primary analysis primarily performed by institutes and universities; utilized analysis collectively carried out by institutes, universities and enterprises (on a 50–50 foundation); and technology growth led by enterprises, which presently stands at solely 30 per cent and wants to extend to shorten the time for merchandise to achieve the market.
Minister Hùng expressed hope that scientists would efficiently implement these initiatives, flip analysis findings into business merchandise and contribute to Việt Nam’s purpose of double-digit development. He added that the online management system ought to function successfully and safely, proceed to enhance and be scalable throughout the whole sector.
Đào Ngọc Chiến, director of NAFOSTED, stated the system will proceed to be refined with an open, standardised and interconnected structure, integrating programmes and tasks from ministries, sectors and localities.
The system will guarantee secure, steady and clear operation, with real-time knowledge at its core, whereas supporting comfort for scientists and management companies. NAFOSTED will work with ministries and native authorities to develop a nationwide digital map of science and technology tasks, strengthening nationwide coordination capabilities.
Professor Dr Trần Đại Lâm, director of the Institute of Materials Science, praised NAFOSTED for constructing clear and sustainable mechanisms to assist analysis. He famous that NAFOSTED-funded initiatives, from primary analysis to purposes, have helped his institute’s teams set up and strengthen their place on the regional supplies science map.
Having skilled the system as an applicant, reviewer and council member, he recommended its equity, transparency and professionalism in receiving, managing and reviewing proposals, permitting scientists to deal with their experience and enhance analysis high quality.
Prof. Dr Lâm hoped NAFOSTED would proceed increasing worldwide cooperation, prioritise coaching younger researchers and additional develop the online management system into a contemporary, clear and efficient infrastructure. This, he stated, would contribute to the general development of Việt Nam’s scientific neighborhood and improve nationwide strategic analysis capabilities. — VNS