Scientist must ... self-marketing

Many scientific works have high practical application value, even have a small market value, but still cannot be applied to promote efficiency in social life. This is a fact that has existed for many years but still has no specific solution. To save themselves, research institutes are now struggling to find their own outputs for scientific products; and these units are also in need of specific policies from managers.

The Institute of Chemistry is evaluated as one of the units capable of creating high revenue sources among more than a dozen research institutes under the National Institute of Science and Technology. Every year, in addition to the research investment of 20 billion VND received from the State budget, the Institute of Chemistry also creates a separate revenue source of 2 to 3 billion VND. This separate source of income is mainly generated from workshops built by the staff of the Institute. This is the place to apply and produce products from the scientific works of the Institute.

Currently, this workshop is rushing to produce composite train locomotive brake pads for units of Vietnam Railway Corporation. However, this is only a rare case of success among dozens of research works of practical value.

According to Dr. Pham Gia Dien, Director of the Center for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology: " There is a lot of demand for scientific solutions in practical life, they are I can fully research and solve it, however, it is very difficult to put my products into units, but it is necessary to have policies to support the use of domestic scientific products. .

Products of safe food additives substitute for borax are produced mainly from shrimp shell materials, ensuring the requirements of food hygiene and safety. The current production cost at the laboratory scale is 500 VND of additives used for processing 1 kg of meat and 100 VND for 1 kg of powder. This is a state-level scientific project with excellent success. Although licensed by the Food Hygiene and Safety Administration since the end of 2003, it has not been marketed until now. In order to find out the direction for the research results, after offering unsuccessful production facilities, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu shook hands with colleagues to build a production facility.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu, Head of Research Department of Pharmaceutical Polymer, Institute of Chemistry, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology said: " The construction of production facilities from its own scientific works is only the last solution. when there is no other way, because we have no experience, knowledge of business and no capital . "

In fact, brake shoe products for composite locomotives have been around for a few years now, good quality, but when the product is offered it is also the time when Chinese iron brake pads are being used. Import unit with large volume. Until now, the Institute's composite brake shoe products have received the first orders.

For borax food additives, after every inspection of the health sector, food production establishments return to using borax because of cheap welding. This shows that the profit factor in business without being strictly examined and sanctioned is still placed on consumers' benefits and health.