VietNamNet Bridge - Three students from Thua Thien – Hue province have invented a system which generates electricity from sea waves.

After winning first prize at the 12th national creativity competition for youth, two students from Da Nang will go to Japan to attend an international exhibition in May to display their Braille printer.  

VietNamNet Bridge - Ta Dinh Huy, 34, has invented an agricultural machine with 15 functions, now available in all 63 cities and provinces throughout the country and exported to Laos. 

A new farm produce preservation technology has been invented by scientists from the Hanoi University of Technology. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two schoolgirls from the northern province of Ninh Binh have presented their idea of making a machine to collect and deal with storms underground.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Van Bon, an electronics engineer in Thu Duc district of HCM City has made a smoke treatment machine based on CRT TV screen technology.

VietNamNet Bridge - Pham Van Hat is a farmer with a seventh grade education who is now earning $2,500 for each sowing machine he sells. 

VietNamNet Bridge - A high school student in Hue City who wants to help minimize traffic accidents caused by drunk people has invented a smart helmet. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Perilla leaf extracts has been used by two students from Nhan Viet High School to make bandages to stop bleeding.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two 12th grade students from Ninh Binh Province won a prize for an invention that uses water to cut and weld stainless steel. It's even environmentally friendly and safe to use.

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Phu Thanh, a farmer from the southern province of Dong Thap, has created a system regulated via mobile phones which compounds pesticide and sprays chemicals.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more scientists and professionals have given up their scientific research works and left laboratories, leaving farmers undertaking some of the scientists’ works.

While the public and the media have showered praise on farmers who have made new machinery, the Minister of Science and Technology has called their achievements “modest”, and chided the public and media for describing them as “inventions”.

The current policy on VAT incentives turns out to maltreat software firms, while the corporate income tax incentives have been benefiting foreign firms. Meanwhile, there has been no personal income tax for software workers.

While inner Vietnamese scientists have very few articles published on international scientific journals, overseas Vietnamese have many. How can this be explained?