Workshop to summarize research and survey tasks, evaluate the current status of the startup and innovation ecosystem

On December 21, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in collaboration with the Center for Application of Science and Technology Advances of Ho Chi Minh City organized a workshop to summarize the tasks of research, survey, and assessment of the current status of the startup and innovation ecosystem, develop an action plan to promote the provincial ecosystem, and build a spatial model to support provincial innovation.

Workshop to summarize research and survey tasks, evaluate the current status of the startup and innovation ecosystem.

At the workshop, representatives from the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Advanced Science and Technology Application presented general information about the project, its objectives, content, and implementation results. With the overall goal of building a spatial model to support entrepreneurship and innovation in the province, the Center set out five specific objectives and five main contents of the task to research and assess the current state of the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem and build a spatial model to support innovation. After one year of research, the results show that the province's entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem is at level 1 – a newly formed ecosystem. Although activities to support entrepreneurship and innovation have been established through several departments and agencies, these activities remain fragmented, lacking a central coordinating unit to attract resources and gather community members. Based on the research results, to put them into practice, the research team proposed recommendations such as: Organizing communication and reporting extensively in the political system and community on the province's science and technology and innovation policies; developing and implementing detailed programs to support and promote the components of the development ecosystem; approving the project to establish the Provincial Science, Technology and Innovation Center and investing resources to operate the Center; organizing the implementation of a spatial model to support science and technology and innovation at the Center for Information on Application of Science and Technology Advances.

Also at the workshop, delegates shared about the management of science and technology and innovation work and proposed and commented on the contents of the topic to ensure that it is suitable for the operating model and fully implements new functions and tasks. At the same time, they hoped that the topic would soon be deployed to develop the local science and technology ecosystem, creating many new and highly effective business models that would contribute positively to the socio -economic development of the province.

Hong Nguyet

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