On September 29, Ninh Binh province coordinated with the Ministry of Science and Technology to organize the Scientific-Practical Workshop "Initiating and promoting the development of an international integration innovation startup ecosystem in Ninh Binh - Problems and solutions".
Conference scene.
Comrades: Doan Minh Huan, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Hoang Minh, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology; Mai Van Tuat, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Pham Quang Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended and chaired the workshop.
Attending and participating in the discussion at the workshop were members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee; leaders of the Provincial People's Council and People's Committee; leaders of departments, offices, and institutes of ministries and branches; experts, researchers, economists , investors, scientists; leaders of departments, offices, branches, districts, cities; and typical enterprises in the province.
Up to now, Ninh Binh is the only locality in Vietnam and Southeast Asia that owns the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex. Immediately after the re-establishment of the province, Ninh Binh quickly changed its development method from Brown to Green. Over the past 3 decades, Ninh Binh province has had strong development steps, most of the province's basic socio-economic indicators are always in the high and fairly good group of the whole country.
In 2024, for the first time, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the innovation index of provinces and cities, Ninh Binh province ranked 16th out of 63 nationwide. Since 2022, Ninh Binh province has been self-sufficient in budget, from a purely agricultural province, to date, industry and services have accounted for more than 90% of the economic structure. Ninh Binh continues to affirm itself as an automobile mechanical center, a center for processing vegetables, fruits, and soft drinks; restructuring the construction materials industry towards applying scientific and technological achievements to produce green, advanced materials, circular economy; actively promoting energy conversion, attracting investment in green energy projects, and developing environmental industry. The province's service sector has developed strongly, with tourism becoming a bright spot, a safe and attractive destination for tourists, gradually becoming a national and international tourist center.
In Ninh Binh, some components of an outdoor innovation center have been initially shaped with a complex of heritage parks, cultural parks, wildlife parks, wetland parks, night-time economic service areas, live shows, and landscape film studios for filming many famous films, especially Kong Skull Island. A clear strategy has been defined to attract investment in emerging industries and services based on the application of scientific, technological and innovative achievements. Along with that, it is necessary to promote the development of ecological, organic, circular, low-carbon agriculture, promote innovative startups of multi-value agricultural products, integrate agricultural landscape heritage into the construction of millennium heritage urban areas, and achieve rural-urban harmony.
Speaking at the workshop, Comrade Pham Quang Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed: Thoroughly grasping the Party's policy on developing science - technology and innovation, considering it one of the country's strategic breakthroughs in the context of digital transformation today, Ninh Binh province has gradually restructured traditional economic sectors based on the application of scientific and technological achievements and promoted innovation, accelerated digital transformation, and green transformation. Along with that, it is initiating new emerging economic sectors based on promoting innovative startups - a breakthrough solution to build Ninh Binh into a regional innovation center, including both indoor innovation centers and outdoor innovation centers, on the basis of utilizing, capturing, commercializing, and corporatizing inventions, innovative ideas, gradually innovating the growth model, and restructuring the local economy.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee pointed out: Based on the potential and available advantages of a locality possessing the outstanding global value of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage - Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, the special value of the Hoa Lu Ancient Capital with its massive, dense, and rich heritage; with more than 40% of the land area being national forests, biosphere reserves, forest land, and wetlands; with the premise of more than 2 decades of transforming production methods from brown to green, Ninh Binh has favorable conditions to accelerate the construction into an outdoor innovation and startup center and gradually initiate an indoor innovation and startup center.
In particular, the Ninh Binh Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, approved by the Prime Minister, clearly defines the goal: By 2035, Ninh Binh Province will become a centrally-run city with the characteristics of a millennium heritage urban area, a creative city, with tourism and cultural industry as spearheads, mechanical engineering industry as a driving force, emerging industries and services associated with innovative startups as breakthroughs, and multi-value ecological agriculture as a pillar.
This is the legal basis, socio-economic premise, competitive advantage of natural conditions, cultural and historical values to initiate and develop an international innovation and startup ecosystem in Ninh Binh province, continuing to gradually shape a green, smart, circular, harmonious, sustainable, natural development model, keeping pace with the development trend of human civilization, choosing a different path when restructuring the economy, innovating the growth model, integrating into the network of heritage cities, cultural industrial centers, value chains of emerging industries and services based on the innovation capacity of the region and the world.
However, up to now, the development threshold of Ninh Binh province requires a breakthrough in thinking, vision, and development motivation based on the application of scientific and technological achievements and promoting innovation, focusing on commercialization and entrepreneurship of scientific and technological achievements, innovative ideas associated with the synchronous initiation of an innovative startup ecosystem, taking the construction of an indoor innovation center as the core, and the development of an outdoor innovation center as the driving force.
The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized that the workshop aimed to consult experts, scientists, and investors to implement the clearly defined goals in the Ninh Binh Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050. It focuses on 4 contents:
First: General awareness of innovative startups associated with initiating and developing an internationally integrated innovative startup ecosystem in Ninh Binh.
Second: Analyze the conditions, premises, influencing factors, opportunities, challenges, and constituent elements of the innovative startup ecosystem in Ninh Binh to initiate, nurture, and incubate; invest in startups, commercialize, and corporatize scientific and technological achievements and innovative ideas.
Third: The format of innovative startups in a number of fields is highly ready to attract investment in Ninh Binh, especially innovative startups associated with the development of cultural and entertainment industries based on heritage parks and industrialization of traditional industries; restructuring performing arts activities, event organization, and creative design in the direction of creative industries; commercializing and corporatizing ideas, inventions, and patents for emerging industries and services based on digital transformation, big data, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, green energy, biotechnology, nature simulation technology, "green" services, including the field of quantum technology that is forecasted to have great potential in the next decade...
Fourth: Perfecting specific mechanisms and policies to initiate and develop an innovative startup ecosystem in Ninh Binh province, especially building infrastructure, policies on taxes, venture capital, land, public-private partnerships, protection of intellectual property rights, creative ideas, franchising, brand valuation, etc. in conjunction with the requirements of deep and effective international integration.
He hoped that the workshop would also be a strong message to investors about Ninh Binh province's readiness to call for and attract strategic investors to develop emerging economic sectors based on the driving force of innovation and commercialization of scientific and technological achievements.
Speaking at the workshop, Mr. Hoang Minh, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, said: The Ministry of Science and Technology appreciates and acknowledges the efforts of Ninh Binh province in supporting creative startups and developing green economy and circular economy. With the regular attention and direction of the provincial leaders, the efforts of state management agencies, especially the creative startup business community, we believe that Ninh Binh's creative startup ecosystem will continue to develop, becoming a center connecting creative startups with international partners, helping Ninh Binh to maximize the advantages of tourism, cultural industry and heritage economy.
The Deputy Minister of Science and Technology hopes that through these activities, the chain of activities to develop the ecosystem, connect localities and regions will continue to be expanded and developed, and the connection between components in the ecosystem will become increasingly closer. At the same time, through this forum, it is expected that experts, investors, and management agencies will truly share and receive practical recommendations, needs, and desires from the community, thereby having practical solutions to "unlock and create" the potential for creative startups in the country in general, and Ninh Binh province in particular.
The workshop will include two thematic discussion sessions, roundtable discussion sessions and sharing of practical experiences.
Ninh Binh Newspaper will continue to update information of the conference.
Song Nguyen-Anh Tuan
Source: https://baoninhbinh.org.vn/khai-mac-hoi-thao-khoa-hoc-thuc-tien-khoi-tao-va-thuc-day/d20240929100046189.htm
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