Việt Nam strives to be regional centre of creativity and innovation
Việt Nam’s national innovation system has been increasingly completed during the past years, said Minister of Science and Technology Huỳnh Thành Đạt in a conference held in Hà Nội on Friday. The Global Innovation Index (GII) has been announced annually by the World Intellectual Property Organisation since 2017 and has been used by the Việt Nam Government as an important tool to compile and promulgate policies to promote innovation. Since then, Việt Nam’s GII ranking has continuously improved, increased from position 59 in 2016 to position 46 last year.
Since last year, with technical support from the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the Provincial Innovation Index (PII) has officially been deployed nationwide. The PII aims to provide an overall view of current socio-economic development based on science, technology and innovation of each locality.
