The nationwide science and know-how improvement program on looking for and transferring overseas applied sciences to Vietnam has just lately been authorised by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST).

The program goals to enhance the effectiveness of transferring, mastering and creating overseas applied sciences in Vietnam, particularly in precedence fields serving demand for brand new technological services, thus bettering productiveness, high quality, added worth and competitiveness of merchandise available in the market.

Under the plan, Vietnam will type a community of worldwide know-how that satisfies the wants of know-how switch; enhance the standard of the labor drive of enterprises and science and know-how organizations; type a database about home know-how demand, provide overseas applied sciences and specialists, worldwide technological companions, and providers that help overseas applied sciences; and deploy actions supporting know-how switch.

The program will assist promote cooperation between Vietnamese and overseas localities via know-how switch and improvement actions as a way to create a aggressive edge.

The newly authorised program defines 5 teams of duties, together with 1/ researching and perfecting the insurance policies and options to facilitate know-how switch, mastering and improvement 2/ bettering the potential of looking for, transferring, mastering and creating overseas applied sciences 3/ constructing, sustaining and exploiting overseas search networks and databases 4/ supporting enterprises and science and know-how establishments in actions of transferring, decoding, mastering and creating overseas applied sciences and 5/ supporting media campaigns.

Regarding coaching, underneath this system, no less than 5,000 officers, technicians and directors in establishments and enterprises will likely be skilled and get observe in looking for, transferring, decoding, mastering and creating know-how, offline and on-line.

Regarding databases and software program, Vietnam goals to ascertain a community of no less than 400 worldwide know-how companions, with no less than 8,000 dossiers on overseas applied sciences that match the calls for of organizations and enterprises in Vietnam; and construct an digital data portal that helps switch of applied sciences to Vietnam.

In phrases of technological merchandise, moreover the aim of getting no less than 30 applied sciences which will be decoded and mastered, no less than 5 key merchandise with high-added worth and competitiveness, MST plans to have no less than 100 overseas applied sciences to be discovered and transferred to Vietnamese organizations and enterprises in precedence fields.

Van Anh