University-company collaboration to commercialize research results

At the seminar “Developing an ecosystem of market-related innovations in universities in Vietnam” on the afternoon of March 24, scientists and managers offered many solutions to connect and carry market research results.

According to Dr. Pham Hong Quat, Director of the Department of Market Development and Science and Technology Enterprises, Ministry of Science and Technology, the essence of open innovation is to create a network, which connects schools with each other, unites schools. general deployment model to solve big problems. He said it was necessary to learn from Singapore in providing difficult problems from organizations so that incubators, startups, schools and institutes could find solutions.

“The role of universities is to bridge the gap in the startup ecosystem,” he said, adding that the linkage between schools and businesses helped build a pilot project to commercialize research results from there. way for the new.

Assoc Prof Huynh Quyet Thang, Chancellor of Hanoi University of Science and Technology, said that the university provides high-quality human resources to help increase productivity, labor efficiency, create knowledge resources, and promote scientific and technical progress, and technology transfer.

“Universities act as pillars in the national innovation system,” Assoc.university.

According to Dr. Nguyen Trung Dung, General Director of BK Holdings, to have a successful startup like Israel or Silicon Valley (USA), is all based on a foundation of innovation, where the existence of the university is very clear.

He said innovation in universities contributes to attracting talent, promoting commercialization, connecting businesses and increasing the index on international university rankings. Mr Dung also cites the current BK Innovation model, which has a full ecosystem of ideas, research results, incubation, acceleration to investment funds.

In fact, many universities are actively incorporating innovative knowledge into subjects such as innovative curricula or deploying shared research spaces. Dr. Le Viet Thuy, Director of the Center for IT Applications, said that the National Economics University has implemented entrepreneurship courses since 2006. The school has also established innovation and entrepreneurship centers, created a network of 500 incubator groups, students, 38 start-up groups, organized competitions such as NEUrOn, I-Startup to promote entrepreneurship and innovation activities in schools.

All opinions agree on the important role of universities in linking research to business and transferring results to markets. However, Pak Dung frankly said that mainstream thinking currently only focuses on the pillars of training and research, not focusing on innovation.

“The application of scientists’ research results to create social effects is still weak,” said Dung. In addition, a poorly trained education system, lack of a team of professional mentors in innovation or experts, lead to the failure of spin-offs and startups.

He cites Singapore’s “Block 71” model with a combination of government, business and university support creating a creative space that helps drive 60% of successful startups in the country.

For Vietnam, he said, depending on the characteristics and goals of each university, the right model should be designed, which is directed at intellectual property research and development, transfer, technology, knowledge and spin-off technology.

Dr. Dung emphasizes the factors to successfully build not only the quantity and quality of research, but also provides a clear mechanism for researchers through the allocation of benefits, which emphasizes human resources.

Dr. Le Viet Thuy, Representative of National Economics University, gave three orientations including pioneering that supports testing new ideas; Inspire entrepreneurship through ideas and create impact, prioritizing product commercialization.

Nhu Quynh

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