Creative projects to make educational equipment or innovative products of students at vocational schools in Ho Chi Minh City have been wholeheartedly welcomed by businesses and the community thanks to their practicability. This is a positive achievement of the encouragement for innovation in educational institutes to serve life.
The Science-technology Development Fund for Businesses (SDF) has been launched lately, achieving impressive results. In order to make the best use of this fund and avoid waste, it is necessary to remove certain limitations and inadequacies related to procedures and processes.
Ho Chi Minh City is encouraging the implementation of technological-scientific measures in administrating and monitoring community activities, digital transformation in different aspects, and administrative reform, as well as operations in the public sector.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology has just announced 40 most outstanding projects of the HCMC Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award 2022 (I-Star 2022) that can enter the final round.
Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has just held a meeting to summarize the 2017-2022 movement ‘City Youth Starting up Business – Establishing Career’.
The National Innovation Center (under the Science and Technology Ministry) and Do Ventures yesterday announced the Report on Innovation and Technology Investment in Vietnam, on the occasion of World Innovation Day (April 21).
Saigon Innovation Hub (SIHUB) and Swiss Entrepreneurship Program Vietnam (Swiss EP) cooperated to organize the conference ‘The Path to IPO for Innovative Startups’, in the framework of ‘The 7th National Festival for Innovative Startups – TechFest 2021’.
Despite the severe Covid-19 pandemic, the Vietnamese startup ecosystem is witnessing an impressive growth, with various startup projects being successful in gaining millions of dollars of capital this year.
Saigon Innovation Hub (SIHUB) under the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology has finished the criteria set of international standard for startup incubator establishment. This is to improve the incubation quality so that more high-value startups can be successfully born in the city in the near future.
Vietnam Youth Federation and Young Businesspeople Association – Ho Chi Minh City (YBA-HCMC) yesterday co-held a ceremony to receive the Labor Order – First Class by the State and the meeting ‘Discussion between Municipal Leaders and Young Business People in 2021’.
Implementing the national digital transformation program until 2025 approved by the Prime Minister in June 2020, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is boosting current related activities in hope of forming digital businesses that possess globally competitive capacity and develop the city economically.
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) People’s Committee has just approved the organization of HCMC Innovation Awards 2021.
The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Union of Science and Technology Associations yesterday announced the grand opening of the Research, Innovation, Consultation Hub (RICH).
The Innovation and Startup Awards 2020 (I-Star 2020) is within the framework of the Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startup and Entrepreneurship Week (WHISE 2020) to honor individuals and organizations with practical activities to boost startup and innovation in the society. This year, it has received many impressive papers.
Saigon Innovation Hub - SIHUB (under Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology) held the event ‘Innovative Startup Training’ to introduce its incubated startups in 2020 to its international partners.
Welcoming the positive results from startup activities lately, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Department of Science and Technology is now finishing the final draft for the project ‘Helping to Develop Innovative Startup Ecosystems in HCMC from 2021-2025’. This program is supposed to increase both productivity and competitiveness of businesses in the city.
Witnessing a satisfying increase of 3 positions to 42 out of 129 nations/economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019 and realizing the importance of innovation to the national development, Vietnam is planning to put more focus on improving this rating via a series of practical activities.