French, Vietnamese businesses boost hi-tech cooperation amid AI boom

The event, jointly organized by the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (CCIFV), La French Tech Vietnam, the French Embassy, Business France, and the French Foreign Trade Advisors (CCE), focused on boosting technology adoption across five key sectors: transportation, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, and FinTech.

At the event, Tran Trong Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, said the city is shifting toward a growth model boosted by knowledge, technology, and innovation. To build an open innovation ecosystem, the city emphasizes triple-helix collaboration: businesses at the center of innovation, research institutions providing technical solutions, and regulators refining policies. Priority is given to artificial intelligence (AI), healthtech, and construction technology, with a focus on commercializing lab research into practical business operations.

French Ambassador to Vietnam Didier Le Bret highlighted that innovation was a central topic during General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam’s recent visit to France, as reflected in the Joint Statement on accelerating the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and visits to the Paris-Saclay science hub and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).

Platforms like France-Vietnam Forward build on this high-level momentum and the April 2025 MoU between the French Embassy and Vietnam’s National Innovation Center (NIC), leveraging France’s network of 55 competitiveness clusters to connect research with industry.

Emphasizing practical outcomes, CCIFV President Thibaut Giroux noted that connecting the two business communities aims to turn opportunities into concrete projects, providing a structured platform for firms to access partners, technology, and resources rather than relying on isolated meetings.

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