The growth rate from science and technology at the National University increases rapidly compared to tuition

Speaking at the group on February 15 on the draft Resolution of the policy of solving problems in scientific and technological activities, innovation, Professor Le Quan, Director of Hanoi National University, looking Receiving scientific research has an important contribution of universities. This is also the main owner of the inventions and research of the whole country ever.

In recent years, the revenue of Vietnamese universities has increased sharply in the field of science and technology. Many businesses come to cooperation and recruitment. “Hanoi National University and Ho Chi Minh City have a highly appreciated forces and potentials. The revenue from science and technology increases annually, many times faster than tuition and other sources,” he Quan said.

But there is a paradox that is a university under the Ministry of Education and Training, but in terms of research, it belongs to the Ministry of Science and Technology. This leads to the management of new universities simply in terms of training, and scientific research and innovation have not been focused. “This is a limitation in the approach,” Mr. Quan commented.

Therefore, in this Resolution, Mr. Quan suggested that the policy for university must be more clear and the university must be the research center. University research facilities should be given priority than external research facilities.

Hanoi National University with 6 research institutes, recently restructured into a technology complex of 8 advanced research institutes and excellent research groups. Although this mechanism is in university, it is capable of operating as a concentrated and comprehensive research institute.

Delegate Le Quan said that besides investing in higher education and society, it is happy that teachers and scientists have high income from their research and contributions. Making a lot of money means that the scientist has contributed to the process of research and creating good products.

He agreed with the State with the mechanism of contracting products according to the output, with the highest goal of research efficiency. He also emphasized that science is a long process, with programs that last 3-5 years, not possible for a few months to be able to create products, especially for research. The foundation, creating a breakthrough.

Assoc.Prof. Vu Hai Quan, Director of Ho Chi Minh City National University, proposed two National University Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to form scientific and technological development funds equivalent to ministries, ministerial -level agencies and provinces directly under the Central Government. Currently, universities are scientific research subjects. Ho Chi Minh City National University is the largest research facility in the South with hundreds of thousands of students and 6,000 lecturers, of which nearly 2,000 people have a doctorate or higher.

“The subject that performs that research without being established will be very difficult to implement. This helps the two national universities as well as other universities complete the research task,” he said.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said that when building this resolution, the Government had questioned “the State spends 2% and 3% of GDP for scientific research is enough?”. Looking out the world that scientific research but only stopped at that level is not enough, forced to mobilize social resources.

Enterprises participating in scientific research must be encouraged. Through this Resolution, the State allows scientific research expenses to be included in the cost of production and exemption and reduction of related taxes. “This is a way to encourage businesses to invest in scientific research and also create a breakthrough,” he said.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the most breakthrough policy of the Resolution is to contract the research results to scientists. Researchers do not have to bid for each material and equipment, listing each cost to perform the task. They will be paid all according to the output product. “Sometimes the research results are only hundreds of pages long, but the payment records are up to the hands.

In the draft resolution, the Government proposed 7 major policies for scientific and technological activities and innovation. Including mechanisms to assign autonomy and self -responsibility for the organization, officials, finance and expertise to the research agency. Civil servants and officials working at public research organizations are participated in establishment, management and administration of businesses to commercialize research results. They are exempted from liability when risks occur in scientific research and technology development.

The resolution also added the principle of the application of contracts to scientific tasks using the state budget, including the contents of the contract to the final product. State funding principles for scientific tasks through funds; Funds in the field of science and technology are established from many sources.

In addition, the draft also adds many tax incentive mechanisms for scientific activities; Strategic technology development; Property formed from scientific and technological tasks.