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| Hi-tech products showcased at a seminar.__Photo: Phuong Anh/VNA |
By 2030, Hanoi capital and Ho Chi Minh City, followed by the key socio-economic regions, will establish their own public science and technology institutions that function to facilitate innovation and innovative business start-up based on the restructuring of local science and technology institutions and public non-business units and consider setting up modern combined science and technology centers up to the world’s advanced level.
Such target is set in Prime Minister Decision 229/QD-TTg approving the Master Plan on the network of pubic science and technology institutions for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision toward 2050.
Other specific targets are to continue consolidating and reorganizing existing public science and technology institutions and study the founding of new (non-public) ones to meet the national socio-economic development requirements against the background of the world’s rapid science and technology development.
Specifically, the number of public science and technology institutions will be reduced by 10 percent and 20 percent by 2025 and 2030 respectively while their research capacity will be improved to attain the regional and international standards. By 2030, the country will have 40-50 regionally or internationally accredited public science and technology institutions.
By 2025, there will be some 10 persons engaged in full-time science and technology research and development for every 10,000 people. This figure will be 12 by 2030.
By 2050, the network of public science and technology institutions will be fully capable of satisfying scientific, technological and innovative activities’ requirements, and national leading public science and technology institutions will reach the world’s advanced level and have prominent competitiveness in selected scientific and technological spheres.-(VLLF)
