📋 Tender Overview
The draft clearly states that the State implements the following policies to ensure that science and technology development is a top national policy and promotes innovation:
Prioritize and concentrate all national resources on science and technology development; synchronously apply incentive and preferential mechanisms and measures to promote the key role and driving force of science and technology in socio-economic development, ensure national defense, security, environmental protection and improve people's quality of life.
Synchronously develop the fields of social sciences and humanities, natural sciences, engineering and technology; link the task of developing science and technology with the task of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security.
Promote research and application of advanced and modern scientific and technological achievements, research to master and create new technologies to innovate, improve technological level and product competitiveness.
Focus on investment in building material and technical facilities, focusing on national priority and key science and technology fields; apply special incentive mechanisms and policies to develop, train, attract and effectively use science and technology human resources.
Create conditions for the development of the science and technology market. Encourage and facilitate businesses to invest in science and technology activities, innovate, master and develop technology.
Encourage and create conditions for scientific and technical associations, socio-political organizations, social organizations, and socio-professional organizations to participate in consulting, criticism, social appraisal, and scientific and technological activities.
Proactively and actively integrate internationally in science, technology and innovation; enhance the national position in science and technology in the region and the world.
Develop strategic science and technology forces, with special attention paid to developing national laboratories, national science and technology research and development agencies, high-quality universities and colleges with a research orientation; promote the leading role of these entities in key science and technology fields and key orientations.
State policy on human resources working in science, technology and innovation
In addition, the draft stipulates state policies on human resources working in science, technology and innovation:
Individuals engaged in scientific research and technological development in research institutes and universities are assigned to positions associated with their capacity and level of scientific research and technological development in accordance with the provisions of law on civil servants.
Individuals working in scientific research and technology development in the business sector or overseas Vietnamese with outstanding achievements will have their working time calculated to be arranged into a job position, scientific title, or technological title equivalent to the recruited job without having to go through an exam.
People with a doctorate degree or with outstanding scientific and technological research works or who have received science and technology awards selected by the State will be considered for recognition and appointment to scientific research positions or higher technological positions regardless of years of work.
Postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and master's students participating in research projects are granted research scholarships from the state budget for that research project.
