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Why most scientific research topics do not meet the needs of life.In the photo: Guests visit Vietnam Techmart Technology Market in Ho Chi Minh City

Every year, a scientist can create a series of equipment from budget money. However, most inventions from the subject of the scientist were rejected by reality. Why?

Over 80% of scientific topics are shelved!

A few years ago, a group of scientists from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering successfully built a rice paper machine. This topic is funded from the state budget. This machine is priced at 470 million, much lower than the price of imported machines, 110,000 USD. However, when buying and using, a food processing unit in Ho Chi Minh City just fell back because the machine only ran for a short time, it was unstable, the cake reached less but it was much damaged, the machine gave up. waste.

Recently, the Department of Science and Technology of the City has accepted the project of manufacturing leafless sugar harvesters made by a company in about two years with the cost of the department, about 1 billion VND. The project was checked and accepted successfully by the council, selling price was VND 200 million, not including tractors worth VND 250 million. However, this machine only works in continuous flat terrain, while with about 100,000 ha of sugarcane cultivated in the common form in the Mekong Delta, it is impotent. Not only that, according to a member of the council is a scientist who has worked for a long time in the agricultural machine industry, this machine is still working, or broken . Therefore, Department of Planning and Technology continue to grant VND 120 million for the authors to study and create a special sugarcane leafling machine.

Meanwhile, two years ago, China used massively (and ready to sell to Vietnam) a complete sugarcane harvesting machine, cutting down trees and tops and cleaning leaves, but the price was only about VND50 million and very mobile in many types of terrain.

On the common ground, although there has not been any official statistics yet, according to some leading scientists, in the field of technical innovations, the number can be put into practical applications only from 10% -20 % of total inventions, the lower this ratio is for the higher level subject, not to mention social science studies, which are often very general and very difficult to apply.

Cause: far from reality and inadequate mechanism

Explaining the problem of most of the inventions of scientists was "practiced", Dr. Dinh Son Hung, Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics of Ho Chi Minh City, admitted that scientific topics still have a certain distance. reality. When carrying out the topic, the scientist surveyed the reality was not careful, lack of depth.

The process of experimentation takes place in ideal conditions, ignoring many circumstances of everyday life so the product "is not different" with "real life" is understandable.

A few years ago, a number of scientists from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology had a project to create a waste treatment system.

The project was successfully accepted and installed in Lai Vung district, Dong Thap province. However, this system worth more than 1.5 billion VND only works for a few days and then goes silent, gradually becoming a bottle.

The main reason is that the local garbage is not included in the research rubbish category of the researchers so the device cannot be processed. The above topics will not have a chance for acceptance if the review committee works more accurately.

According to Dr. Dinh Son Hung, on the issue of controlling the topic, currently the criteria for selecting members of the council and the criteria for evaluating the topic are still unclear, unclear, and appraised with heavy feelings .

As for Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thuc Loan (Institute of Energy Development Research), former Head of the Cybernetics Department - State Committee for Science and Technology (now Ministry of Science and Technology), said that the biggest reason is processing.

The budget for research has been low, being " divided into seven, split seven ", " falling out " gradually in " bureaucrats ", in the amounts not written in the documents, so the amount actually serves the research work. How much, the research quality is therefore not as expected.

Topics and projects are often carried out according to the direction and targets but not the "ordering" of immediate and long-term implications of life.

Because of the lack of support and lack of "conductors", the results of the study are not commercialized, the products are out of control of economic managers, misuse of workers (engineers do replace workers) .

The remuneration is not commensurate, so now the number of doctors participating in scientific research is less than 1/3, and more than two thirds are becoming more and more "teaching workers".

Professor Loan emphasized: " A country that wants to thrive must have a breakthrough in science and technology. To have advanced science, it is necessary to have policies to train, attract and rationally use natural resources. Gray, economic performance depends on the results of applying scientific and technological advances, especially high technology, into practice ".