|
| Nguyễn Duy Ngọc, everlasting deputy head of Việt Nam’s Central Steering Committee for the Development of Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation meet with Assoc Prof Dr Chaowaree Adthalungrong from Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency in Bangkok on Thursday. — VNA/VNS Photo |
BANGKOK — A visiting delegation from Việt Nam’s Central Steering Committee for the Development of Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation held talks with Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) on Thursday, opening up prospects for deeper cooperation and larger exchanges of expertise in institutional growth and sci-tech governance.
The Vietnamese delegation was led by the committee’s Permanent Deputy Head Nguyễn Duy Ngọc, who can be a Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, and head of the Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission.
At the assembly, Assoc Prof Dr Chaowaree Adthalungrong, Executive Director of the NSTDA’s National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), stated the 2 international locations share many similarities in local weather, pure situations, crops and challenges referring to illness administration in crops and livestock. Given these similarities, she stated, strengthening the partnership was important to handle widespread challenges.
Over current years, NSTDA has constructed sturdy partnerships with Vietnamese analysis institutes and organisations in agriculture, biotechnology, power and sustainable growth. Notable examples embrace joint tasks on cassava worth chains, salt-tolerant rice, biotechnology merchandise and an initiative on inexperienced power cooperation and growth in the Mekong basin.
Chaowaree expressed her hope that the newest discussions, specializing in salt-resistant rice, poultry vaccines and BIOTEC’s areas of experience, would lay the groundwork for broader long-term collaboration between the 2 sides.
Addressing the assembly, Ngọc praised the intensive expertise and longstanding cooperation between BIOTEC, NSTDA and Vietnamese businesses, expressing his hope that the discussions would quickly ship tangible outcomes throughout analysis, manufacturing and sensible software.
He burdened that Việt Nam has clearly outlined its strategic course via Resolution No 57-NQ/TW, which locations science and know-how, innovation and digital transformation on the centre of the nation’s future growth technique.
Highlighting similarities in the event orientations of the 2 international locations, Ngọc stated he believes the assembly would supply useful classes for Việt Nam, notably in fostering breakthroughs, encouraging progressive considering in governance and creating sensible enterprise fashions.
He proposed that either side strengthen dialogue and information-sharing in order to determine joint analysis and software platforms, starting with comparatively easy tasks earlier than progressing to extra superior options, notably in biotechnology functions for agriculture, healthcare and medical providers.
As a part of the working programme, the Vietnamese delegation additionally carried out discipline research and examined a number of of Thailand’s notable coverage and administration fashions at present carried out at NSTDA.
Among them was the autonomous sci-tech company mannequin, which permits nationwide shared-use analysis centres to function flexibly with autonomy in finance, recruitment and commercialisation outdoors the standard state wage framework.
The delegation additionally studied Thailand’s built-in governance mannequin beneath the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESI), which consolidates science and know-how, innovation, larger training and analysis inside a single ministry to optimise sources.
In addition, Vietnamese officers reviewed Thailand’s science and know-how cluster system, which is intently linked to particular financial zones and supported by internationally standardised shared infrastructure, together with a synchrotron particle accelerator. The mannequin is predicted to supply helpful reference factors for Việt Nam because it considers restructuring its nationwide community of high-tech parks in the approaching years. — VNA/VNS