With the goal of building Ho Chi Minh City into a Creative Startup Center, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai hopes that the innovative startup community will continue to choose the city and accompany the city in contributing to building the strategy. strategies, policies, creating and building a startup and innovation ecosystem in Ho Chi Minh City.
On March 28, Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee organized the Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Community Meeting Program.
In attendance were comrades: Nguyen Van Nen, Politburo member, Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Phan Van Mai, Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; and nearly 30 reputable innovative experts and entrepreneurs in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City is a special urban area, a major center of economics, culture, education - training, science - technology, a focal point for exchange and international integration. The city's creative startup ecosystem is considered the most dynamic in the country.
In particular, the city has 50% of startups, 40% of incubators and startup support establishments, 44% of investment capital, and 60% of the country's business deals. The city is also the first locality to have a specific policy on innovative startups.
Ho Chi Minh City is considered a place where the innovation community can choose to start a business. The Ho Chi Minh City government has many policies and commitments to responsibility in building and developing the startup ecosystem.
At the meeting, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Phan Van Mai informed that currently, Ho Chi Minh City is focusing on building the city to become a Creative Startup Center of Southeast Asia and the continent.
With the goal of building Ho Chi Minh City into a Creative Startup Center, the Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee hopes that the innovative startup community will continue to choose the city and accompany the city in contributing to building strategies and policies. policies, creating and building a startup and innovation ecosystem in Ho Chi Minh City.
During the meeting program, Ho Chi Minh City leaders also listened and shared difficulties and problems in mechanisms and policies to support the process of entrepreneurship and innovation.
“City leaders want to listen to the innovation community share and give suggestions for Ho Chi Minh City to choose the right focus, the right direction, and invest properly to perfect mechanisms and policies and further develop the ecosystem. entrepreneurship and innovation in a city of regional and international stature", Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee affirmed.
Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee shared the goals and vision of Ho Chi Minh City development as well as city development strategies. At the same time, he affirmed that with the role and development orientation of Ho Chi Minh City, there is still a lot of room, opportunities, and many "orders" from the city for the startup and innovation community to participate in research. , solving the city's problems from socio-economic development, urban traffic, environment, climate change...
“These are opportunities for experts and innovative entrepreneurs to research and participate in startups to contribute to the socio-economic development of Ho Chi Minh City and the country; Along with that, contribute to building Vietnam's competitiveness and international integration", Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee expressed his wish.
Resolution 98 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City has opened up many mechanisms to develop science and technology and innovative startups.
Ho Chi Minh City leaders want to listen to experts and entrepreneurs share and give suggestions from strategic directions, mechanisms, policies to specific things to jointly build a startup and innovation center in Ho Chi Minh City. of Southeast Asian and continental scale.
Going into detail, Ho Chi Minh City leaders want to listen to comments on developing regulations for a controlled testing mechanism (sandbox) on new technology solutions within high-tech parks and information technology parks. concentration, innovation center in Ho Chi Minh City.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology Nguyen Viet Dung introduced the project to support the development of an innovative startup ecosystem in Ho Chi Minh City and the Ho Chi Minh City Creative Startup Center.
The center is a place to gather and connect resources in the city's innovative startup ecosystem, domestically and internationally.
The center was built with the goal of forming a network of creative startup centers in Ho Chi Minh City including incubators, accelerators, innovative startup support organizations, investment funds, schools, Institutes and relevant domestic and foreign agencies, organizations and corporations.
The Center is also a place to help spread the State's support policies on innovation and entrepreneurship to the community, provide innovative start-up services, support technology transfer activities, Research, develop and commercialize scientific research results, in order to create a competitive advantage for the city in the region and internationally in innovative startups for the city.
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