Accepting risks in scientific research and technology development is one of the breakthrough policies and mechanisms recently approved by the National Assembly.
Take risks to make breakthroughs in science and technology
In the process of promoting the science, technology and innovation ecosystem in Vietnam, many problems have arisen due to mechanisms and policies that are not suitable to practical requirements and demands.
Sharing at the 2024 Information and Communications Industry Summary Conference, Mr. Tao Duc Thang, Chairman and General Director of Viettel, said that the biggest obstacle in accessing and purchasing technological secrets is evaluating and determining value, because these are specific, exclusive technologies and are very difficult to reference and compare.
What Viettel and many other businesses want is a pilot mechanism and exemption policy for businesses to test new technologies and new business models. At the same time, Vietnam needs to implement a special mechanism in researching, accessing, and purchasing foreign technology secrets and advanced technologies.
Venture capital activities always have high risks and low success rates. However, if successful, the output will be highly profitable, covering the costs, promoting the development of new technologies and new business models.
To promote the development of scientific and technological breakthroughs, Vietnamese technology enterprises need to cooperate with leading technology companies in the world. However, in practice, large technology companies often propose preferential policies that are unprecedented in Vietnam but already exist in many other countries. For example, when Samsung set up a chip factory in the US, it received more than 6 billion USD in funding from the US government...
In that context, Vietnam needs to have policy mechanisms to cooperate with the world's leading technology companies to develop science and technology, accepting to give up some short-term benefits to move towards long-term benefits.
In a recent conversation, when talking about the problems related to the story of science and technology development policy, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoai, Director of the Vietnam Institute of Artificial Intelligence, said that in Vietnam, when using open source code to develop AI, just need to handle relatively large problems, will immediately encounter problems related to infrastructure.
" The cost of renting infrastructure is huge. Many state centers are invested in building AI infrastructure, but cannot rent it out or even have money to pay for electricity due to mechanism problems ," Mr. Hoai cited.
To solve the problems and "untie" Vietnamese scientists, the National Assembly recently voted to pass a Resolution on piloting a number of special policies and mechanisms to create breakthroughs in the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation.
One of the important highlights of the Resolution is that Vietnam will accept risks in scientific research and technological development. Accordingly, organizations and individuals conducting scientific research and technological development activities are exempt from civil liability in case of damage to the State. Organizations in charge of scientific and technological tasks using the State budget, fully implementing regulations, research processes, and explanatory content but not achieving the expected results will not have to return the funds used.
Public science and technology organizations are also given the highest level of autonomy and responsibility, proactively using financial resources and proactively recruiting, determining the organizational structure and number of employees. These organizations are allowed to be managed according to the enterprise model, autonomously register for business, carry out joint ventures and associations to apply and commercialize scientific research results and develop technology. Public science and technology organizations are established or participate in establishing, contributing capital to enterprises to commercialize research results owned by that unit. Employees at public science and technology organizations are allowed to contribute capital, manage, operate and work at enterprises established to commercialize research results created by that organization.
The policy from Resolution 57 was promptly institutionalized.
According to the Government's submission to the National Assembly, one of the important political bases of the Resolution on piloting a number of special policies and mechanisms to create breakthroughs in the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation is Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW (Resolution 57) issued by the Politburo.
The development of a Resolution on piloting a number of special policies and mechanisms to create breakthroughs in the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation aims to promptly institutionalize Resolution 57 into practice.
Assessing the specific mechanisms and risk acceptance for scientific research in Resolution 57, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui The Duy said that the Politburo has put forward new guiding viewpoints to mobilize, remove obstacles, and liberate creativity.
This is demonstrated through investment in science and technology and innovation, digital transformation is a long-term investment with risks. Only with risks can breakthrough, creative results be created, bringing high benefits.
For example, reviewing, updating, and adjusting mechanisms and policies, assigning units to take charge of managing scientific and technological tasks and owning research results, thereby continuing to invest, research, develop, and apply them to life.
According to Associate Professor Dr. Vu Van Tich, Director of the Academy of Science, Technology and Innovation (Ministry of Science and Technology), we have always said that science, technology and innovation are the top national policies. This has been most clearly demonstrated through Resolution 57.
Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Van Tich said that Resolution 57 is an institutional revolution for Vietnam's science and technology, firmly affirming that Vietnam's development model will be based on science, technology and innovation.
The rapid institutionalization of Resolution 57 will contribute to creating a turning point to help Vietnam become a developed country with high income by 2045.
“ We can learn from the model of East Asian countries such as Korea, Japan, and China. These are places where development is clearly based on science and technology. Along with that is a system to solve institutional bottlenecks through the application of high technology, especially digital transformation ,” Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Van Tich stated his opinion.
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