For national innovation
Speaking at the ceremony to celebrate the World Creativity and Innovation Day 2025, which took place on the afternoon of April 21 in Hanoi, Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized: April 21 is not only a day for scientists or technology enterprises, but also an occasion to honor the creative thinking of all classes of people in all fields. From farmers improving agricultural machinery, to students being creative in their studies, encouraging the spirit of "dare to think, dare to do, dare to innovate" throughout society, connecting creativity and innovation with sustainable development.
The Minister said that international studies have shown that innovation is the key to helping developing countries overcome the middle-income trap. Innovation is a strategic "side door" for developing countries to shorten the gap, optimize limited resources, and create practical value from what is available for rapid development. According to the Minister, it is necessary to build an innovation ecosystem where businesses can improve products suitable for the domestic market, people can innovate in their actual conditions, and the state plays a role in creating an environment, institutions and motivation for innovation to not be hindered, but to be unleashed and spread.
Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung speaks at the ceremony to respond to World Creativity and Innovation Day.
According to the Minister, the culture of innovation is a culture of continuous learning, daring to experiment, continuous improvement and adaptation. Innovation does not need to be big and bold, but can start with small, practical improvements in daily life. A typical example is Finland, a country of quiet innovation, continuous learning and micro-innovation. It is a learning society, a society of mass innovation. Finland believes that small improvements from 5 million people are more valuable than inventions from 500 scientists. In this way, small improvements from 100 million Vietnamese people will be no less than 10,000 scientists.
Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said that the Ministry of Science and Technology has been assigned by the Politburo to develop a National Startup Project, in which the core content is to form the spirit of innovation among the entire population, making innovation a way of life for all people and organizations. Building a culture of innovation, encouraging discovery, and being tolerant of failure.
Overview of the Ceremony to respond to World Creativity and Innovation Day 2025.
Innovation is the driving force for development, promoting innovation is promoting development, planning innovation is planning the future. Innovating science and technology activities to focus on solving major national problems.
Comprehensive digital transformation is needed
According to the Minister, to create and innovate for the entire population, we must comprehensively digitalize the entire real world, and bring all activities to the digital environment. The digital environment is the ideal environment for all ideas to be realized the fastest, because it is non-physical, non-distance and non-contact.
The Vietnamese people develop their greatest potential when an activity is transformed into a national movement, from resistance to economic reform, from education to industrialization. This is a very unique cultural and social strength and must be considered a pillar in the national innovation development strategy. A strategy based on culture will certainly succeed, a strategy not based on culture will often fail.
Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung visited the exhibition space of science and technology products, innovation and digital transformation at the Academy of Posts and Telecommunications Technology.
April 21 is both World Creativity and Innovation Day and Vietnam Innovation Culture Day. Vietnam not only develops science and technology, but also nurtures a culture of innovation for all people. Arousing the spirit of innovation for all people in the digital age, expanding innovation beyond the laboratory to businesses, schools, offices, communities and localities. Every year on this occasion, we will organize Innovation Week, launching the movement "Each citizen has an innovative idea, each civil servant innovates from the smallest things".
The Minister emphasized that building a culture of innovation for all people will be the core to creating success in the breakthrough development of science and technology, innovation and digital transformation in Vietnam that the Party Central Committee and General Secretary To Lam have launched.
In the context that the whole country is focusing on and resolutely implementing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science and technology development, national innovation and digital transformation, to promote the combined strength of the entire political system, the active participation of enterprises, research institutes, universities and people in promoting innovation activities to serve socio-economic development, ensure national defense and security, improve the quality of people's lives, and perform assigned functions and tasks, the organization of the Ceremony to respond to the World Innovation and Creativity Day is of great significance.
2025 is the fourth year that the Ministry of Science and Technology organizes the Ceremony in response to the World Day of Creativity and Innovation, with the goal of: Propagating and popularizing in the community and the whole society to join hands to promote innovation activities; creating a culture of innovation in the whole society; raising awareness of the role of science and technology, innovation and digital transformation in sustainable socio-economic development and promoting all aspects of human development; promoting the development of science and technology, innovation and digital transformation, so that science and technology becomes the driving force of the economy, innovation is the main driver of growth, digital transformation is a strategic tool to improve national innovation capacity; promoting the development of the national innovation system, strengthening the connection between the enterprise sector - state - institutes/schools - startups - investors - community with the role of digital platforms Connecting technology supply and demand, experts and ideas.
Themes responding to World Creativity and Innovation Day 2025: "Innovation - Think differently, Do differently for better"; "Innovation - Pioneering enterprises - Prosperous nation"; "Innovation for all - Comprehensive digital transformation - For a better life".
Source: https://mst.gov.vn/xay-dung-van-hoa-doi-moi-sang-tao-toan-dan-la-cot-loi-tao-nen-thanh-cong-197250422092639031.htm
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