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While many experts warn that robots, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intellectual (AI) will deprive workers of their jobs, research say advanced technologies will create new job opportunities.
Economists have mixed feelings about FDI from China
VietNamNet Bridge - While affirming that FDI from China will bring capital and jobs, economists say the FDI flow should be received in a selective way.
How has outdated Chinese technology entered Vietnam?
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnamese businesses are continuing to import outdated Chinese technology despite repeated warnings by scientists that the country could become a ‘technology landfill’.
Vietnamese engineer creates smoke-treatment machine
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.
Technology transfer: Vietnam has products and money, but lacks brokers
VietNamNet Bridge - Experts believe that few technology transfer cases have succeeded in Vietnam because of a lack of intermediary organizations.
Domestic technologies not attractive to Vietnamese businesses
VietNamNet Bridge - The State budget every year funnels big money into national scientific research projects, but discoveries by scientists seem to have little significance in the eyes of businesses.
HCM City's love affair with FDI to continue
VietNamNet Bridge – In 2015 HCM City continued to lead Viet Nam in
attracting foreign directed investment with inflows of US$4.5 billion.
FDI projects have improved the city's socio-economic infrastructure and
created a new facade for it.
The negative side of Chinese investment in Vietnam
Chinese investors have shown greater interest in Vietnam as an investment destination, especially after Vietnam concluded negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and signed a series of free trade agreements (FTAs).
Vietnam gives excessive incentives to foreign investors
Vietnam gives big incentives for FDI enterprises with the expectation
that they will perform technology transfer in the country, but the fact
is that only 20% of foreign firms were engaged in technology transfer in the past 5 years.
Technology transfer remains limited despite 2007 law
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MST), the
watchdog agency in the field, cannot give the exact figure about the
number of technologies transferred since the technology transfer law
took effect in 2007.
Mechanical engineering field can’t find promoters as businesses uninterested
VietNamNet Bridge – The majority of scientific research in mechanical
engineering deals with simulation and theory, and very few projects are
associated with experiments and technologies.
Gov’t bans transfer of 30 technologies
The
Government has approved the Decree 120/2014/ND-CP which expands the
list of technologies banned from transfer from abroad into Viet Nam.
Few Vietnamese companies receive tech transfer from foreign companies
VietNamNet Bridge – Technology transferred through foreign direct investment has not occurred in Vietnam, economists have said.
Demand for environmental technology soars
VietNamNet Bridge – All of Vietnam’s 16 economic sectors will need
around 7.6 billion USD of investment in environmentally friendly
technology,
South Korea to transfer 167 technologies to Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge - Next year, South Korea will transfer 167
different kinds of technologies to Vietnamese enterprises in four main
industrial sectors.
FDI attraction to be under strict scrutiny
VietNamNet Bridge – Although Vietnam has attracted large amounts of
foreign direct investment (FDI) for more than 20 years, it has yet to
master managerial skills and optimally absorb technology transfer from
FDI projects.
Russia to hand over most modern nuclear technology to Vietnam
The Russian Ambassador to Vietnam confirms that nuclear energy is one of the important areas of
cooperation with Vietnam, and Russia will transfer advanced technology
for the nuclear power plant 1 in Ninh Thuan, which is about to be
launched.
FDI boosts tech transfers but performance can lag
VietNamNet Bridge – While foreign investment is a good indicator of
technology transfer in Viet Nam, such transfers do not necessarily
improve performance,
