According to VNA, during his official visit to the Czech Republic, on the afternoon of January 19 (local time), in Prague, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting and worked with the Vietnam Innovation Network and Vietnamese experts in Europe.
According to Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, to date, 10 Vietnamese innovation networks have been formed in the most developed countries and regions in science, technology, and innovation, with about 2,000 members.
At the meeting, delegates of the Network and Vietnamese experts and businessmen in Europe shared experiences and gave advice to Vietnam on developing a number of key areas such as cooperation in artificial intelligence and digital technology between France and Vietnam; development trends in world health sciences and a number of medical cooperation projects, cooperation in human resource development in the semiconductor and medical technology fields between Germany and Vietnam; medical cooperation, expert exchange between the Czech Republic and Vietnam; building a bridge of technology and knowledge between Hungary and Vietnam.
Along with that, delegates proposed establishing a specialized agency for innovation, enhancing domestic and international academic exchanges, forming hubs (connection and transit centers) for innovation, attracting resources...
Taking note of the opinions of the delegates and sharing with the network members, the Prime Minister reiterated the viewpoint that “resources come from thinking and vision, motivation comes from innovation and creativity, strength comes from people and businesses”, “it is a hundred times easier to endure without people, it is a thousand times harder to accomplish with people”, “nothing is impossible, the problem is having the determination to do it and knowing how to do it”.
According to the Prime Minister, Vietnam's starting point was very low, but thanks to innovation in thinking, changes in economic management methods, the liberation of resources, and the mobilization of resources, from a country devastated by war, siege, and embargo, we have developed our socio-economy and achieved many important results as we do today.
For example, from a self-sufficient country, Vietnam has actively integrated into the international economy and has now become one of the 20 countries with the largest import-export scale in the world.
The Prime Minister requested that Network members continue to strengthen connections with the National Innovation Center; actively contribute ideas to the development of guidelines, institutions, mechanisms and policies; attract and mobilize maximum resources such as public-private partnerships, direct and indirect investment; research and technology transfer; train human resources and improve governance capacity. The goal is open institutions, smooth infrastructure, smart governance and human resources.
At the same time, it contributes to the implementation of the current priority goal of economic growth, through renewing traditional growth drivers (investment, export, consumption) and promoting new growth drivers (digital economy, green economy, circular economy, creative economy, knowledge economy, sharing economy, emerging industries such as semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, internet of things).
The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Science and Technology and relevant agencies to continue to contact and strengthen with network members, intellectuals and experts of Vietnamese origin abroad, specifically programs, ideas and proposals of experts and intellectuals, promote the strength of great national unity, combine national strength with the strength of the times to firmly step into the new era - the era of the nation's rise to develop richly, prosperously, and the people are increasingly well-off and happy.
