Vietnamese leaders and high experts within the United Kingdom mentioned methods to speed up innovation and strengthen the nation’s high-tech and strategic expertise sectors.
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| Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung, on the MoU signing ceremony between NIC and VIS |
On October 31 in London, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung met with the Vietnamese Intellectual Society (VIS) within the United Kingdom and participated in a discussion board on fostering innovation and increasing key expertise sectors in Vietnam, drawing classes from the UK.
The occasion introduced collectively Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Tam, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Duc Long, and practically 100 members, together with Vietnamese scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers from main UK universities, analysis institutes, and tech firms.
Participants exchanged experiences, fashions, and greatest practices from the UK for growing superior expertise sectors, overlaying areas reminiscent of renewable vitality, AI, semiconductors, quantum expertise, knowledge science, inexperienced finance, and next-generation telecommunications. Vietnamese entrepreneurs and British experts additionally introduced a number of exemplary tasks, highlighting the potential for deeper technological cooperation between the 2 international locations.
These included renewable vitality cooperation tasks between the UK and Vietnam carried out by ODE Ltd; the Thames Tideway Tunnel developed by Scott Wilson; quantum dot and infrared sensor functions by Quantum Science; and inexperienced ammonia and inexperienced hydrogen options launched by BP Group, alongside promising collaboration prospects in AI and 6G cell networks introduced by younger Vietnamese expertise professionals within the UK.
As a part of the occasion, the National Innovation Centre (NIC) underneath the Ministry of Finance, and the VIS within the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland signed an MoU to strengthen cooperation in implementing initiatives associated to innovation, startups, and technological funding connectivity between Vietnam and the UK.
Under the MoU, either side will improve linkages amongst companies, analysis institutes, and universities, and collectively implement tasks inside 11 nationwide strategic expertise teams, contributing to constructing an internationally aligned innovation ecosystem in Vietnam.
DPM Dung highlighted areas the place the UK holds sturdy benefits, reminiscent of AI, semiconductors, quantum expertise, renewable vitality, superior biomedical expertise, robotics, automation, and inexperienced finance.
He additionally urged Vietnamese experts and intellectuals within the UK to assist Vietnam’s innovation efforts, saying, “We call on our experts to strengthen academic exchange, provide policy consultation, and assist Vietnam in building a sustainable innovation ecosystem, while inspiring collaboration and innovation among young Vietnamese in the UK.”
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