Notably, Vietnam climbed 5 locations to rank fiftieth globally in StartupBlink’s Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2026, its highest place ever.
The home innovation ecosystem continued to increase, with 963 sci-tech enterprises, 20 sci-tech exchanges and 37 innovation centres working throughout 26 out of the 34 cities and provinces nationwide.
On digital transformation, the speed of totally on-line administrative procedures reached 50.2% in May. The digital economic system contributed an estimated 14.02% of GDP in 2025, equal to about 72.1 billion USD.
Vietnam additionally held its place among the many world’s main international locations for telecom infrastructure. Mobile broadband speeds hit 207.3 Mbps and stuck broadband averaged 287.33 Mbps, putting the nation eleventh globally in each classes.
To date, Vietnam has recorded 110.5 million cellular broadband subscriptions, together with 24.29 million 5G customers, alongside 25.62 million fastened broadband subscriptions. Postal service income in May was estimated at 8.5 trillion VND, up 30% from a 12 months earlier.
May introduced a flurry of main diplomatic and scientific occasions. Highlights included the Vietnam–India Innovation Forum in New Delhi attended by Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, talks between the Vietnamese and Sri-Lankan ministries of science and know-how on cooperation in 6G, unmanned aerial autos and satellite tv for pc applied sciences; and the third assembly of the Government Steering Committee on science and know-how improvement, innovation, digital transformation, and Project 06./.