The minister of Science and technology Nguyen Manh Hung reviews 2025 there are many high goals for the industry, but with awareness, new ways of doing things, has created many results, the impact of substance.
Reviews be The minister Nguyen Manh Hung launched in The the year 2025, the work plan year 2026 of science, international cooperation and legal, the 20/12. The event is located in the chain the sum of the units in the Ministry of Science and technology.
Other than the year before, this year's activities summarizing is done according to the block, aims to help the unit in The tank mounting internal and formed the overall perspective, generalization, from which coordinate work more efficiently.
According to The minister, 2025 is a pivotal year of the Ministry of Science and technology, when two Sets of fused, forming a large-scale, creating the synergies between science, technology, innovation and transformation of the three pillars promote development of the country.
In that context, The minister appreciated the efforts of the units in 9 months past, when just ensure regular task, just deploy many “hard work, new work, first performed” in terms of organization and management practices change quickly. “By 2025, we've changed: change perception, to change the way, change the way the use of new working tool and also create more results,” he said, taking for example the drafting and been through 10 of the law in the past year “equivalent to the number of 25 years”, there are laws pioneer in the world such as the egyptian Law, the Law on Switch number.
According to The minister, the big goals and high pressure has forced the machine to change direction more strength to the final results and the impact the high quality for economic development – social.
“People will have the special power when in the special,” he said, at the same time given orientation, new ways of doing things for each unit. “Not towards the result, the ultimate impact, then the country can't grow,” The minister stressed.
Institute of Science and technology Vietnam – Korean (VKIST): from study to master and commercialization technology
Years ago, blocks, science of the Ministry with one of the nose piercing is VKIST have deployed 64 missions of science and technology. Out of this there are 47 tasks using the state budget, 7 missions ODA, 9 missions due to business orders and a mission research collaboration directly with the business. VKIST signed 6 contract technology transfer, which has the contract for the transfer of rights to use patents and patent, utility solution. According to the report, the businesses involved in technology transfer, pledge minimum turnover of about 130 billion within 5 years, showed the trend of association studies with the practical needs of the market.
Reviews results have many positive points, The minister also suggested VKIST not only in the coordination of research, which must “co-developed” with the enterprise, join us from the stage of research and development to application and bring products to market. He asked VKIST to change radical new approach, move from the research institute to the unit, technology, and commercialization of technology for business.
Instead measured by the number of topics or scientific report, The minister proposed evaluation criteria must be value creating for the economy and business. According to him, VKIST need to move from the small to the project can scale big enough, “make out the plate out dish”, create impact, clear and capable of replication.
An important requirement is The minister stressed that innovation financial mechanism. Accordingly, VKIST need to move from how to make research topics traditional to model state order technology, said the investment resources of The state will be tied directly to the mission home and provide technology for the business, instead of just stopping in research results.
In addition, according to The minister, the new policy of the Ministry of need where did before to test, evaluate and adjust. “VKIST must be the unit sample application of the new policy on science, technology, innovation and transformation of the Ministry of Science and technology, write out,” he said. The ready set at the laboratory scale, even up to 500 billion to VKIST deploy the model to laboratory international level.
About the long-term, The minister set a target within the next 5 years, the scale of operations research and technology transfer of VKIST to double growth with each passing year. According to him, in order to achieve this goal, VKIST need to change the approach in governance, considered leader not only is the science that is the study manager, capable of attracting forces of global research, hire international experts, formed the business spin-offs and research institutions under the flexible mechanisms.
Legal affairs: from the “gate keepers legal” to design the institutional system
In 2025, the Legal department is one of the units there is large volume of work of the Ministry. Service was coordinating construction and the competent authority issued on 10 bill, a resolution of congress, 18 decree, a government resolution, 5 the decision of the Prime minister and 44 circular, at the same time advising The government issued a number of resolutions, headings, French, contribute to improving the legal system in industry, Science and technology.
Speaking at the conference, The minister Nguyen Manh Hung appreciate this result, but also suggestions and Service need to be more engaged with specialized Science and technology. According to The minister, The management of many different areas, but must be seen as a unified whole, in which the role connect, and lead. He requested a transfer Service strong role from “the gate keepers legal” to “the design of the institutional system”.
Ministers take, for example, standard quality measure must be fastened with science and technology; or intellectual property rights must be associated with innovation, by the nature of innovation is to bring research results to the market to buy, sell, trade goods. Convert numbers also impact directly, speeding up the development of science and technology. In that context, the Legal department be asked to play the role of “chief architect” in institutional design, ensure the laws, decrees, circulars, not contradictory, overlapping.
To do this, he asked the Legal department should not stand at the end of the process to revise the letter, which must be involved from the beginning in the process of policy formation. Thinking to make laws, The minister stressed the need to move from “approach law to strict management” to “law to pave the way for innovation, but there is risk control”. However, he noted not go in the direction of radical that needs tectonic development along with management, to maintain social stability, with the spirit of ‘development’ and ‘sustainable’ are two objectives in parallel.
Another requirement is The minister put out is innovation by design legal instruments. Accordingly, in addition to the tools “hard skills” such as laws, decrees, circulars, need to use more the “engine soft” as standard, technical guide, frame trial, contract templates, or digital tools to increase flexibility and adaptability of the policy in the context of science and technology is developing fast.
About the team force, The minister requested the Legal transition from the model law experts purely to “lawyers, technology policy”, understand both the law and expertise. “Legislation should not be checkpoints, which must be a shaft connection between the professional and institutional,” The minister said, while emphasizing the central role of Services in architectural institutions of the Ministry of Science and technology in the next period.
The department of international cooperation: from “public relations” to national capacity
In 2025, the international cooperation department have managed and implemented large volume of active international cooperation of the Ministry. Specifically, Service coordination, organizational 38 union leadership of the Ministry of overseas business and welcome the next 100 international. Service also signed 17 of the agreement on international cooperation, including an agreement The government level with south Korea and 16 memorandum The same 6 MoU with universities and businesses. Service has built database 259 expert overseas Vietnamese from 8 representative office of science and technology.
Reviews the context of science and technology developed rapidly, Vietnam can't just rely on the capacity of water which must make use of knowledge, and united globe to solve the problem development of the country, The minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasize international cooperation of the Ministry of must rotate around two core objectives: bring the world to Vietnam and bring Vietnam to the world.
The minister asked the department of international cooperation, innovation radical way, moving from “public relations” to national capacity, from foreign administration to the role architect strategic partnership. According to him, the Service is not the only union organization, or the text of cooperation formalistic, which have to design is the chain technology cooperation strategy, clearly answer the questions of cooperation to get something and serve the development goals of the country. Take, for example with the innovation telecommunications of Vietnam, The minister said that this is demonstrated most clearly for the value of international cooperation is the force of “open road”, and this should be promoted better in the new period, from the last academic to transfer capacity.
“Vietnam is conditional on the lab, have the money, need to take global knowledge about this,” he tasked the department of international cooperation.
The minister also particularly noted the role of network science and technology of the Ministry of overseas. According to him, this is the force of great value but has not yet been properly exploited, the lack of opportunity to participate in solving the practical issues of Vietnam, leading to wasted resources. He asked to deliver specific tasks, attach this network with the program, key projects in the country.
Service, social Sciences, humanities and nature: creating the foundation of knowledge for long-term development
Speaking at the conference, The minister of Science and technology Nguyen Manh Hung renewal requirements basic approach towards research, basic science, moving from thinking “come down from heaven to earth” to “go from the earth to the sky.” According to The minister, basic research, need comes from the practicality of Vietnam, from which the formation and development knowledge platform to serve long-term development, rather far removed from the needs of the country.
The minister said today the Ministry of Science and technology has spent about 15-20% of the total budget for science and technology for research, basic science, in which science natural make up about 60-70%, and the social sciences and humanities accounted for 30-40%. According to The minister, this is a great resource, by the basic science is the source of knowledge of long-term ethnic, but with that comes the big question of the value created for development.
From practical requirements, development of Vietnam, The minister question, if not derived from the problem specific of Vietnam, scientific research basic is very easy to fall into a state of “suspended”, the trouble to create impact. He cited many examples of the issues that need to be studied seriously, as model institutions, local authorities, the assessment officer through the term, or the extraction experience thousand-year history of peoples in the construction of “raw gas” country. According to The minister, this is the value of knowledge is very big, can not be measured merely.
“The social Sciences, humanities and natural to move from the management topic to orient foundation of knowledge country,” he said, asking to change the new role, clearly define the foundation of knowledge that Vietnam needs to master in 15-25 years to come. Basic science, according to him, can not do by thinking short term, or run in accordance with the tenure.
Service is also required construction of the chain's mission is to study the long term lasts for 5 years or longer, focusing on the strong research groups and accept the risks are controlled. He stressed the need to switch the orientation from “science for science” to “science for development”, focusing on the big problem of the country, through which the processing resources of a huge investment for basic science into real foundation for sustainable development of the country.
Academy of strategic Science and technology, Vietnam: become the “brain” strategy of the Ministry of
Last year, the academy organized training on digital platforms for officers, servants commune with more than 35,000 students; at the same time deployment training nationwide online on decentralization, decentralization for officers of Department of Science and technology and community levels in 34 provinces and cities. Besides, organizational unit 18 training function, the officer of science and technology and information technology for more than 2,300 students, grades STEM “0 co” attracted more than 1,200 plays together 15 training program number skills and application of AI for officers of ministries, local time.
Speaking at the conference, The minister of Science and technology Nguyen Manh Hung frankly acknowledge The current “weak on research strategy,” the limitations in the strategic decision-making and power lead. According to The minister, has led it to excellence. This is not just a story of its own Ministry of Science and technology, which is the general problem of the country, by want fast-growing and sustainable, it can't be lack of strategy lead in accordance with Vietnamese culture.
According to The minister, the role of “chief architect” of strategy is particularly important. Strategy can not only is the translation and application of the summation international, because if does not fit with the organizational culture and the national context, it will fail. According to The minister, the biggest difficulty of making current strategy is to find the fit that.
From this request, The minister stressed the academy of strategic Science and technology to innovate the basics of the role, moving from research and training purely to become the “brain” strategy of the Ministry.
“The academy is not the place where Ministry leaders looking to before making the big decision,” he said, given that this ensures continuity and sustainability in strategic thinking, instead of depending on an individual leader. He also noted how the strategy is not to write a report, then take the cabinets, that to directly serve the decision-making process.
About the product The minister asked the academy moved from the research report, to the output as a basis for policy decisions, as a policy brief, scenario development and analysis of options. According to him, in the context of information increasingly large, the product strategy should be brief, concise enough to touch the core issues and help decision makers quickly grasp the essence.
About how to choose the problem, the academy need to move from research fragmented to focus on the strategic issues of the nation, has a huge impact and long-term. The advocates of the new Ministry leaders, such as the role of science, technology, innovation and transformation of the economic growth, should be the academy clarified by the research, analysis and illustration tools to create real value for the policy.
About training and developing team, he asked the academy of innovation, strong content and method of transfer from training on heavy stock only to forging capacity for strategic thinking and ability to work in a new, took “Some” and “WHO” as the axis throughout. At the same time, the staff capacity of the academy should be advanced, from pure research to strategy experts interdisciplinary insights, technology, economics and law. According to The minister, the academy must be the focus of the most brilliant people, because if the “brain” strategy weak, it will have a lasting impact on capacity lead of the Ministry and of the whole country.
Journal of Science and technology of Vietnam: from published research to intermediate diffuse knowledge
In 2025, Journal of Science and technology, Vietnam academy of strategic Science and technology, published 37 numbers, including 28 of English and 9 of English, in which there are 7 states thematic; operation of electronic Journals, and the expert page, perform tasks propaganda policy with about 2,400 news and articles on electronic Journals and 200 articles on print Magazine. The magazine is 26 Council professor and interdisciplinary scoring scientific works, of which 20 council dots from 0.75 to 1 point, position, academic country.
Speaking at the conference, The minister Nguyen Manh Hung stressed the need to elevate the role and position of Journal of Science and technology in ecosystem science and technology national. He also stated undertakings bring about subordinated to the Ministry to exert full role, similar to the pattern of many ministries, each with a press agency and a specialized magazine.
About the development direction, The minister requested the Magazine innovation strong role, moving from place to publish research results to intermediary agency help knowledge service planning, policy, innovation and technology development. Accordingly, the research articles published in the Journal not only scholarly value, which must become the inputs for policy formulation science and technology, innovation, conversion of standards, metrology and quality, and the field of state management of the Ministry.
According to him, a study, if only to stop in the publication that is not spread to become knowledge-general for industry, for the country, the value yield is still limited. So, the Magazine needs to expand to serve, not just scientists, but also towards the management, policy and business technology.
From there, assess the quality of the Magazine is not only based on just the number of citations or academic ratings, which should consider the level of use in the main text books and schemes, as well as the ability to be entrepreneurs and local use in practice.
About content, The minister oriented Magazines need to supplement the overview, strategy, policy analysis, forecasts, science and technology, connecting research with technology and the market, at the same time selected, translated and introduced articles in international value. The role of The council of editors also need to be changed from purely academic to the direction of knowledge, guaranteed Journal content associated with the problems of the industry and the country.
The conference, The minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasize the general requirements for the unit and a team of officers in a new phase of development. According to him, whether in the field of institutional strategy or science and technology, human factors still decisive.
“It must be those who have a great desire, skilled and, especially, ‘kind',” he said, emphasizing this value should be recalled more in the current context. In addition, the need to promote the role of technology, especially artificial intelligence, in changing the way work.
Source: vnexpress