'The most difficult thing is to use talented people'

On the morning of April 13, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had a working session with the Ministry of Science and Technology and related ministries and agencies on the tasks, solutions to develop science and technology in 2007 and the plan to come in 2010.

The Prime Minister stressed: The Ministry of Science and Technology must create a more favorable legal framework and have policies to encourage the maximum of scientists and enterprises to participate in science and technology activities to create motivation for economic growth and improve competitiveness. Thanks to the application of technology in production.

Lack of "leader" in science and technology

Mr. Hoang Van Phong - Minister of Science and Technology - in the report at the conference pointed out: In nearly 4 5-year plans of the renovation period, science and technology activities still have weaknesses:

That is the level of research in scientific agencies and technology levels in enterprises is low; The role and impact of science and technology to production and business is low, leading to low efficiency of science and technology activities.

In particular, the mechanism and policies for science and technology and management of science and technology activities have been slowly innovated and incomplete. Lack of the role of leader in science and technology activities, both at home and abroad, makes many science and technology projects difficult to find reputable partners to cooperate in production, or not to connect local companies to create products with competitive advantage in foreign markets.

The team of research and development of science and technology has not been used reasonably, many cases of "brain drain" because talented people have not been used and have no conditions to promote their capabilities, forte, are not active work force.

Initially innovating the method of science and technology activities, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the research agencies (including universities) have moved to operate under the mechanism of autonomy and self-responsibility, in which a transfer department to business mechanism or become a science and technology enterprise.

In 2006, along with implementing the bidding method to assign science and technology tasks to organizations and individuals, giving greater authority to the program management board and scientific advisory council, clearly defining responsibilities when completed and Do not complete the task.

The essence of this innovation is to give responsibility and authority to the highest level of the scientific community in taking responsibility for the results that the project brings. However, the most difficult present is to use talented people due to lack of training fund, working equipment and recruitment mechanism .

A "scientific order" policy is required

Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized that science and technology should be considered as the top national policy, the driving force of development and integration. Therefore, the policy mechanism of merit for talents in this field needs special ventilation.

" How to make scientists of all economic sectors, science and technology enterprises, business enterprises bring more science and technology into production, bring practical applications " - The Prime Minister said.

The Prime Minister asked the Ministry of Science and Technology to propose more incentive policies to promote the creative capacity of science and technology staff. The Prime Minister said that domestic scientists are fully capable of occupying science and technology peaks, only a breakthrough mechanism and policy.

The solution to create breakthroughs was pointed out by the Prime Minister, attaching science and technology to the market, science and technology enterprises are self-reliant and self-responsible subjects, changing from funding to autonomy and human resources. .

The state will only order a part of the budget, the rest of the institutes, schools must "stick" to life, the market needs nothing, must approach and set research issues to meet market demand. .

Thus, the new house itself can live by product, the research topics are practical applications with high feasibility and practicality.

In order to form such enterprises, the State will initially support by mechanisms such as setting up Science and Technology Support Fund to lend businesses loans, support for taxes, land and production grounds for enterprises to operate.