Hanoi (VNA) – Australian experts sharedexperience in innovation at a workshop held by the Vietnamese Ministry ofScience and Technology (MoST) in Hanoi on November 22.

Lucy Cameron, a senior expert of Australia’sCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), gaveinsight into the innovation-based economy, and stressed that Vietnam is makingefforts in innovation to create changes in its economy that relies on tangibleproducts.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui The Duy toldthe workshop that the Vietnamese Government, ministries and agencies, includingthe MoST, have constantly updated and adjusted policies to promotescience-technology and innovation in industrial production.

In the field of innovation, the government hascooperated with a number of partners like the World Bank, Finland, and then Australia,he said. Cooperation with Australia has helped Vietnam adaptvery quickly to the world's digital transformation, especially in woodprocessing, and build a policy system on science-technology and innovation thatis up to date with world practice.

Nguyen Duc Hoang, deputy head of the MoST’s StateAgency for Technology Innovation, noted that in a developing country likeVietnam, innovation should go with the application of research and development achievements,as well as existing technologies.

The participants looked into Aus4Innovation - adevelopment assistance programme that aims to strengthen Vietnam’s innovationsystem, prepare for and embrace opportunities associated with the fourthIndustrial Revolution, and help shape Vietnam’s innovation agenda in scienceand technology.

They shared the view on the need to roll out mechanisms and policies, and supplement solutionsto complete the national innovation system, thus making science-technology andinnovation an engine of national development./.