Da Nang: Creative industry should develop around sea tourism

DNVN - According to Associate Professor Dr. Tran Ngoc Ca (Hanoi National University), Da Nang needs to focus on creative industry - a core element of innovation, and approach cluster development revolving around marine tourism.

On November 15, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) of Da Nang organized a workshop to synthesize comments from relevant parties, finalize the content of the project "Da Nang - City of Innovation" and develop a specific action program for the period 2026 - 2030.

Workshop on giving opinions on the project "Da Nang - City of innovation" on November 15.

Summarizing through the comments, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Ca (School of Business Administration (HSB), Hanoi National University) emphasized that Da Nang needs to focus on creative industry - a core element of innovation. And the city of innovation is the pedestal, creating a foundation for creative industry development.

According to him, focusing on creative industries will create economic development based on higher added value and more competitive advantages, instead of focusing only on industrial production which tends to be outsourcing, has little added value and is prone to falling into the low-income trap.

“Barcelona (Spain), Copenhagen (Denmark), San Diego (USA), Tel Aviv (Israel), Busan (Korea), Cebu (Philippines), Phuket (Thailand) are some reference models in the world that are suitable for Da Nang, and have some common features such as being close to the sea; ideal living and working environment; diverse types and combinations of innovation”, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Ca said.

According to him, Da Nang's creative industry model needs to be maximally linked to tourism development; practically serving the promotion of other strengths of the city such as marine economy, ports/logistics, traffic hubs, etc. At the same time, Da Nang should become an ideal living and working space for scientists and technologists, managers, local investors and those from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and abroad.

He suggested that Da Nang needs to cooperate and connect better with other domestic innovation clusters such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; connect with provinces and cities in the region, making Hue and Hoi An become components of Da Nang's ecosystem, not competing against each other but relying on each other.

Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Ngoc Ca spoke at the conference.

At the same time, link up with some foreign innovation centers (Singapore, Japan, Korea, USA...) in the direction of establishing foreign facilities in Da Nang; choose strategic partners such as for Da Nang, like Hanoi has chosen French partners, Ho Chi Minh City has chosen San Francisco partners... in the direction of exchanging experts, sharing technical facilities, and combination effects.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Tran Ngoc Ca, Da Nang needs to shape itself as a center for a number of clusters of creative industries, finding or creating specific niches for development. In particular, he proposed that Da Nang's creative industry should approach development in clusters revolving around sea tourism. At the same time, it should aim at the 172 billion USD BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) market; film studio service industry; providing services and software solutions for supply chains and logistics; tropical marine architecture; Central cuisine...

According to Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Da Nang, Le Thi Thuc, the contributions from the discussions and workshops that have been continuously held in the past time are strategic preparations to ensure that the project is highly applicable, suitable to the needs and development potential of Da Nang; opening up opportunities for cooperation and comprehensive connection, aiming to develop the city into a sustainable and internationally-reaching innovation center.

Hai Chau

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