Journal SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICIES AND MANAGEMENT

Development trends of some sectors of priority technologies in period to 2030 year

Nguyen Hoang Hai, Nguyen Quang Tuan, Nguyen Viet Hoa — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Technologies pass development under strong impacts of the 4th Revolution of industrial development and a productivity revolution. The positions of science and technology (S&T) in the new context are reflected well in its guiding roles for socio-economic development thanks to impacts of fast changes and development to results and qualities of S&T activites. With the roles described in many studies as “platform”, “breakthrough”, “core” and “advancing”, technologies keep on guiding roles for development of modern manufacturing modes in service for targets of sustainable development, digitalization of manufacturing practice, enhancement of productivity, quality, effectiveness of development and competitiveness of national economy to 2030 and further. Vietnam is under preparation process of Strategies for science-technology-innovation (STI) for 2021-2030 period. The paper targets to give contributions to the preparation process of the Strategies.

Code: 19061701

Criteria for evaluation of policies for promotion of innovation by enterprises

Nguyen Quang Tuan, Bui Thi Hong Viet, Nguyen Thi Lan Huong — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Innovation is one of important factors to help enterprises in enhancing their competition positions and then pushing up fast and sustainable socio-economic development in international competitive markets. This fact is internationally acknowledged largely. In actual global competitive context, enterprises are facing a tough choice: innovation and R&D or bankruptcy. Supports from the State through policies and mechanisms are important driving forces to push enterprises to do innovations for development. The set up of criteria for evaluation of policies for promotion of innovation by enterprises has highly important roles for decision making by individuals or organizations. This paper is to give answers to the following questions: (i) What are policies for promotion of innovation by enterprises? (ii) What are factors which make impacts to policies for promotion of innovation by enterprises? and (iii) What are criteria for evaluation of policies for promotion innovation by enterprises?

Code: 19060701

Higher innovation capacities for participation in higher value added stages in global value chains: theoretical aspects and suggetions for Vietnam

Nguyen Thanh Tung — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Firms participating in value chains would find opportunities and modes of learning to be affected by types of chain governance in the value chains they operate in. Therefore, the building of support policies for domestic firms in learning to enhance innovation capacities for participation in stages with higher added values in global value chains should be based on analysis and right identification of types of governance and modes of learning in conformity to types of global value chains.
This paper is focused on analysis of upgrading types in global value chains and demands of innovation capacities, types of governance and impacts to modes of learning of domestic firms. On basis of global analysis of some types of value chains in Vietnam, some suggestions are made for policies to support domestic firms to exploit better the learning capacities for their upgrading in global value chains.

Code: 19032801

Some problems of science-technology strategies through comparison with science-technology policies

Hoang Xuan Long, Hoang Lan Chi — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Science-technology strategies and science-technology policies are different from their visions, long term or short term, scopes of interests, global or sectorial, applied commonly for the whole science-technology sector or for specifically selected topics. These aspects were dealt in numerous documents. Nevertheless this paper tries to clarify certain aspects. Here, the authors note some remarkable comparisons on the roles and their meanings, indicators in objectives, opposite sides in building related documents and evaluating outcomes of their main components.

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Innovation based start-up culture: Problems of interests

Nguyen Ha Thi Quynh Trang, Nguyen Hoang Hai — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Innovative start-up, during recent decades, has become trends causing strong impacts to economic growth of the world in general and the one of many nations in particular. Since 1980s, studies by Peter Drucker (2011) on start-up entrepreneurship and innovation made highly exhaustive remarks on original potentials holding the growth rate of the US during 1970-1980 period which gets closely bound to start-up efforts.
During recent years, the success of innovative start-up models from some counties such as Israel, Finland and others has raised the question “Why some countries push up successfully good start-up while someothers do not?” As shown in studies by the team of authors Dan Senor and Saul Singer (2009) on Israel’s model as start-up nation, the cultural aspects were dealt numerously in efforts to push up start-up in this country. Following this approach some studies were focused on innovation based start-up culture as important component in efforts to push up start-up of some countries. So, how the innovation based start-up culture gets identified? This paper provides some initial understandings for clarification of this question.

Code: 19061801

Linkage between scientific community and enterprises in national innovation system

Nguyen Viet Hoa — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Linkage between scientific community and enterprises are found as important matters of nations, particularly in contexts of strong impacts from the 4-th Industrial Revoluation. The latter requires countries to get rich knowledge capitals to set up solid platforms for national development. The knowledge capitals get formed, develop and stored mostly in scientific communities. In the new era, numerous enterprises have passed strong development stages and own large economic groups with enriched capacities and potentials including knowledge capitals. But not every enterprise can do it since majority of enterprises are difficult in developing knowledge capitals, both quantitativeky and qualitatively. Linkage with scientific community through training activities, tranfer of research results, joint efforts for production and commercialization of research results are found among important solutions to assist enterprises fast to get new knowledge for application in innovation activities, production and business operations. Herfe, the State plays very important roles in completting the national innovation systems (NISs) to offer eco-environments to develop the linkage between scientific communities and enterprises which are important pillars for national economy.

Code: 19071001

Promotion of development of high tech agricultural zones in Vietnam: status and solutions

Tran Ngoc Hoa — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

Development of agriculture with application of high technologies (called afterwards as “high tech agriculture”) is seen as a solution for Vietnam agriculture development in context of agricultural structure shift, international integration and response to disasters and climate changes. The actual development of high tech agriculture in USA, Netherlands, Thailand, China, Israel and other countries shows that these countries achieve record harvest values, namely 250-300 ton/ha of tomato harvest, 100-150 ton/ha of grapefruit harvest (10 times higher than traditional cultivation) and 1.5 million of flower twigs/ha. High tech agriculture cultivation gives an average value of USD120,000-150,000/ha per year in Israel or a value of USD40,000-50,000/ha per year in China (40-50 times higher than traditional cultivation). These figures are illustrations of efficiency of this trend of development with high tech agriculture models, high tech agriculture zones and incubators of firms. In this paper, the author deals with development of high tech agriculture zones which are taken as core component for development of high tech agriculture of Vietnam. The author shows the actual status of development of this sector as well as shortcomings and, at the same time, makes a recommendation of measures for settlement of difficulties and development of high techs.

Code: 19051001

Barriers in international cooperation activities in science-technology field

Dinh Thi Thanh Long — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0700

International cooperation activities in science-technology field play important roles in knowledge economy which involves many actors. From one side, international cooperation brings rich benefits for involved partners such as shortening gaps between nations, enhancing competitiveness of nations and others, and, from another side, posing many challenges. This paper focuses on barriers rising from cooperation process and international cooperation policies in science-technology field and, then, proposes initiatives to overpass barriers.

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