Launching an online management system for science and technology tasks over time

On November 27, the Ministry of Science and Technology officially launched the real-time online management system for science and technology tasks of the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development ( NAFOSTED).

Speaking at the event, Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung said this is not only a new technology product but also a new platform for innovation in science and technology management models, an important step towards entering the management phase based on data, digital processes and international standards.

Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung speaks at the event. (Photo: Ministry of Science and Technology)

"To innovate science and technology, we must innovate science and technology management, shifting from management to motivation, from administrative control to data-driven and transparent operations, from decentralization to integration and standardization. The new software system will help increase appraisal quality, shorten approval time, and limit errors and risks," said Minister Nguyen Manh Hung.

According to the Minister, this is the spirit of less management, more leadership, less control and more creation, shifting from asking for and giving to openness and transparency. The software system developed by Vietnamese people has features equivalent to those of Korea and can be connected to co-fund with developed countries.

Also at the announcement ceremony, 309 science and technology topics were signed by NAFOSTED. These are the first topics in the spirit of the new Law on Science and Technology, shifting from input management to output management, from invoice and document management to research results management, shifting from budget spending to contract spending, from research results returned to the state to research results belonging to research organizations for commercialization. And the direct research group will enjoy at least 30% of the commercialization results.

A notable new point is that the assessment of the completion of a topic will shift to the assessment of research results that must be brought to businesses, creating commercial products, generating revenue, contributing to GDP growth, and this revenue must be equal to 5 to 10 times the research cost after 3-5 years.

In the spirit of the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation 2025, instead of evaluating each topic of a research organization as before, we will move to evaluating the organization's research topics as a whole, accepting risks and being tolerant of failure. Moving from small topics to large tasks when the average value of a task has doubled in this period. Moving from scattered research to strategic research with over 50% of the signed topics belonging to the group of strategic technologies.

The list of science and technology tasks is divided into three layers. In which, basic research will mainly focus on institutes and schools. Applied research will be 50-50 for both institutes, schools and businesses, and technology development will be 30-70.

"Currently, technology development tasks assigned to businesses are only 30%. It needs to be increased further because assigning them to businesses will have more counterparties and businesses' research will reach the market faster," Minister Nguyen Manh Hung directed.

Mr. Dao Ngoc Chien - Director of NAFOSTED Fund. (Photo: Ministry of Science and Technology)

Receiving the Minister's instructions, Mr. Dao Ngoc Chien - Director of the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development ( NAFOSTED) said that he will focus on immediately completing the system in the direction of openness - standardization - national connection, ready to integrate programs and tasks of ministries, branches and localities in accordance with the spirit of Article 20 of the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation 2025.

At the same time, Mr. Dao Ngoc Chien also emphasized that the system will be operated safely, stably, transparently, taking real-time data as the center for management, monitoring, and evaluation of the mission life cycle. At the same time, we will continue to accompany and support scientists, management agencies, and scientific councils to use the system most conveniently - considering the digital platform not only as a tool, but also as a new, more effective and modern way of working. Accompanying ministries, branches, and localities to share experiences, support implementation, and move towards forming a digital map of national science and technology tasks, contributing to improving management capacity at the national scale./.

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/khai-truong-he-thong-quan-ly-truc-tuyen-cac-nhiem-vu-kh-cn-theo-thoi-gian-post1079610.vnp