Journal SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT

Pilot’s assessment of the vietnam provincial innovation index

2024-01-29T20:54:13+07:00

The Global Innovation Index (GII) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been used by the Viet Nam Government since 2017 as a management toolkit for various ministries and agencies. As this index operates at the national level, thus authorities at provincial level have not yet played a role in improving Viet Nam's GII index. Provincial authorities with different characteristics require tailored solutions and socio-economic development models based on science, technology and innovation (STI). Establishing a provincial-level innovation index will provide a practice and comprehensive overview of the status of the socio-economic development model based on STI in each locality, offering evidence of strengths, weaknesses, potential factors, and necessary conditions to promote socio-economic development based on STI, thereby contributing to the nation's GII improvement. Building this provincial -level innovation index involves several steps, and the pilot assessment is expected to provide insights and foundations for the formal construction and implementation of this toolkit in the coming time. This article presents the results of the pilot’s assessment on the local-level innovation index conducted in 2021-2022, covering 18 localities based on the GII index framework and methodology.

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National endogenous science and technology capacity: current situation and solutions

2024-01-29T21:05:58+07:00

The process of industrialization and modernization in Vietnam has been carried out for quite a long time. Only since the country's reunification (1976) until now, the industrialization process has taken place for nearly 50 years. Despite of achieving great and historically significant milestones and robust comprehensive development compared to pre-reform years”, Vietnam has recently transitioned to a lower-middle income country. Vietnam is striving, by 2025, to surpass the lower-middle income threshold, become an upper-middle income country by 2030, and become a developed, high-income country by 2045. To accomplish this goal, the 13th National Party Congress outlined the task of “Continuing to promote industrialization and modernization on the foundation of scientific, technological and innovation progress”. Within the scope of this article, the author presents various aspects of solutions to enhance the nation's endogenous science and technology capacity, contributing to the task of industrialization and modernization advancement, based on the progress of science, technology, and innovation.

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Some perspectives on general policies, special policies, and excellence policies in science, technology, and innovation in Vietnam

2024-01-29T21:17:07+07:00

The system of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies can be categorized into general, specific, and advanced policies. Each type has its characteristics, significance, and content. The analysis of general, specific, and advanced policies allows a clearer understanding of the current situation and development solutions for STI policies in Vietnam in the near future.

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Inclusive innovation and policies to promote inclusive innovation in China and implications for Vietnam

2024-01-29T21:23:59+07:00

Over the past decades, China has achieved rapid development based on science and technology (S&T). However, this rapid growth model based on S&T also lead to serious consequences such as inequality, wealth gap between rich and poor, and depletion of natural resources. To cope with emerging challenges and achieve the goal of sustainable development, in addition to restructuring production industries China also pursued the policy of building a harmoniously developed society. And with the favorable socio-economic context based on S&T, China has successfully implemented various programs and initiatives with the content and characteristics of inclusive innovation covering a wide scope and scale of implementation. Currently, China is also facing a lot of difficulties and challenges and with many choices in formulating inclusive innovation policies such as building a comprehensive strategy and policy on inclusive innovation, and continuously refining and improving specific inclusive innovation policy mechanisms, based on a deeper understanding of the needs of excluded groups. Despite of the challenges, the successes in inclusive growth that have been achieved in China during long period of time and the policy challenges in implementing inclusive innovation that China is facing will suggest many lessons for developing countries including Vietnam for reference and learning when formulating innovation policies for inclusive growth, ensuring that no one is left behind.

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Digital performance in Vietnam from the perspective of the digital startup ecosystem

2024-01-29T21:32:44+07:00

The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive summary of Vietnam's digital startup ecosystem. A cross-country analysis focusing on Vietnam's digital performance compared to its neighbors as well as the best and worst performing countries in the world reveals that despite notable progress has been made, Vietnam still lags the rest of the world. In this research paper, we create an overall picture of Vietnam's digital startup ecosystem along with startup ecosystems in emerging Asian markets to supplement the academic literature. Based on a comprehensive review of digital ecosystems literature, we identify growth promoting drivers and ecosystem-related challenges and provide policy recommendations for Vietnam.

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Some issues on stakeholder engagement in science technology and innovation policymaking processes for sustainable development goals

2024-01-30T15:40:06+07:00

In the context that the world is facing social challenges and rapidly increasing uncertainty, researchers on science technology and innovation (STI) policy are concerned with building STI policies capable of orienting innovation, mitigating socio-technical constraints, promoting resilience and prevent risks, uncertainty and ignorance. In order to develop STI policies that meet these requirements, participation and cooperation among stakeholders in the STI policymaking process plays an increasingly important role. This article aims to overview some issues of stakeholder participation in the STI policymaking process and propose some contents that need attention for research in the coming time on the engagement of stakeholders in the policymaking process in Vietnam.

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Building a capital market for start-up enterprises contributing successfully to industrialization and modernization

2024-01-30T15:45:35+07:00

Startups in the field of STI (science, technology, and innovation) are becoming increasingly important to economies, because its research and application of technology can lead to output increasing and contribute a solid economic development. Government funding always plays an important and decisive role in helping and creating a premise and motivation for startup’s technology research and application. However, due to increasingly high costs, state budget funding shortage, and regulations limiting subsidies... it is necessary to have capital mobilization methods for effective startup STI funding that can create a driving force for sustainable development in the future. The capital market is a part of the financial market that plays an intermediary role in facilitating and regulating the flow of money from places with excess capital to places in need of capital. Normally, to mobilize capital through this capital market, businesses often have to meet legal criteria such as capital criteria, business performance results, and corporate governance... These legal criteria are big obstacles for startups. Therefore, researching and building a specific Startup’s Stock Exchange floor will create opportunities for startups to access the capital market/stock market to mobilize capital easily and at lower costs.

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Some transforming trends in science, technology and innovative services in the context of industrial revolution 4.0 in Vietnam

2024-01-30T15:51:33+07:00

In recent years, along with the continuous development of different types of technology, the development of innovation ecosystems, the models of science and technology service organizations have been changed greatly much. A number of legal documents guiding science and technology intermediaries, incubators, science and technology services, have been revised and updated, but there are still practical areas that have not been presented all the actual contents and trends of science, technology and innovation services. The science and technology services in this article are defined by the author based on the concept in the Law on Science and Technology (2013) and additional intermediary services of innovation support and innovation ecosystem development. Service types gradually shift towards integration between many services into a complete service package, linking many partners to provide services to customers, clearly defining customer needs. Transforming from simple case-based, contract-based service models to long-term subscription-based package services. Service revenue is changed from a one-shot contract to a subscription service (as service contract). Such a continuous shift will create many opportunities for organizations to deploy science, technology and innovation services, but also create many challenges.

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