The article (Vietnam’s science, technology and innovation strategy 2011-2020) shows the importance of policy and governance when a company wants to launch a Science Technology and Innovation (STI) strategy regarding the rapid development of technologies. It gives a comparison between the French and the Vietnamese STI policy framework, their strengths and weaknesses.
The key point of this article is the fact it exists methodological instruments to make a decision and try to adopt a good STI strategy.
The French national strategy – concerning the development of S&T technologies – is to empower a new industrialization in order to create a stronger economy in the country. In this way, the promotion of the technology is most of the time focusing on the financial aspect. The fact is the France don’t use efficient tools to predict and control new technologies and there is not enough communication between actors.
What kind of tools could make sure the S&T strategy is understand by actors ? What kind of tools could measure the talent, the quality of the innovation or to create a network instead just the financial aspect ?
So how can we promote in a better way a technology ? Let’s see the Vietnamese strategy to implement sciences, technology and innovation.
Taking into account of the quick and unpredictable technological changes and societal development, Government try to focus on their impact and the measurement of those economic growth. In this way, they use three methodologies to make a decision concerning the launching of a STI strategy :
- Technology forecasting which evaluate the usage of the technology and its potential in the future.
- Technology assessment which evaluate the potential of the STI. What will be the opportunities, how can it help to resolve societal problems ?
- Technology Foresight which includes themes and stakeholders to evaluate the social, economic and environmental aspect of the S&T.
After using those methodologies, they can promote STI in showing specific characteristics what are they launching. This article shows that Government and STI policy are really important to implement new sciences, technologies and innovations because they give opportunities to cities to develop the economy of the country.
