Vietnam’s hi-tech parks are making efforts to shift from manufacturing
activities towards R&D for high-technology products and innovations.
“It’s the right time for Saigon
Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) to focus on choosing qualified and hi-tech projects
investing in SHTP after 10 years of attracting investment,” said Ho Chi Minh
City-based Saigon Hi-tech Park’s managing director Le Hoai Quoc.
According to Quoc, because SHPT
had limited land of 913 hectares, it needed to push the hi-tech park model
based on knowledge and technology.
“In the next step of development,
we will prioritise those investors who have highly added values and mainly use
Vietnamese talents to help local people to approach advanced knowledge through
foreign investment projects,” said Quoc.
Within the first 10 months of
last year, SHTP attracted nine new projects.
Quoc said: “SHTP endeavours to do
investment promotion and targets high value-added projects. We want to build up
an intensive research park based on research and development (R&D)
activities as a source of their innovativeness and competitiveness”.
In a similar development, Hoa Lac
Hi-Tech Park after 14 years of establishment and development will also attempt
to transform its hi-tech model from resource-based to knowledge-based one.
Nguyen Quan, Minister of Science
and Technology, said last month at his visit to Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park that
R&D should be the heart of Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park and expected the park would
widen the R&D area.
The first hi-tech park in April
issued letters of invitation for consulting services Hoa Lac Science and
Technology City Development Project which is expected to put into service in
April 2016.
Under this project, basic
infrastructure will be built for an integrated science and industrial
technology centre in Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park that provides research, development,
education and training in the Hoa Lac area.
Apiwat Ratanawaraha, assistant
professor of Department of Urban and Region Planning, Chulalongkom University,
Thailand said all middle-income countries in the region had technology and
innovation parks of some sorts.
Most of them were open to any
technology sectors such as Vietnam’s Saigon Hi-tech Park and Hoa Lac Hi-tech
Park.
“But some of the parks are
sector-specific such as biotech parks in Malaysia, software park in Thailand.
Even Myanmar now has an ICT/software park,” said Ratanawareha.
Le Phan Hoang Chieu, director of
SHTP Laboratories, said that such hi-tech clusters were often based on strong
partnership and collaboration amongst research groups of universities, research
laboratories of SHTP and enterprises.
“Universities have many
scientific researches for technology transfers and strong human resource, while
research laboratories of SHTP own many research facilities and active clues for
technology transfer and enterprises need new technology for production and
business requirements,” said Chieu at last week 16th Asian Science Parks
Association (Aspa) conference at Ho Chi Minh City.
Minh Thien | vir.com.vn
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