VOV.VN - As many as 500 local and foreign delegates attended the Young Scientists Conference 2021 held virtually on August 6 by the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, to promote young innovations in the Industry 4.0 era.

An Australia-funded project has chosen nine leading agritech scale-ups from overseas to enter the Vietnamese market with an aim of solving the country’s most pressing agrifood challenges, according to the Australian Embassy in Hanoi.

Three Vietnamese projects were among the top five to win the “Impactful Social Innovative Concepts” awards in the Social Business Creation 2021 competition.

A Vietnam Innovation Network in the Republic of Korea (VINK) is slated to make its debut on July 31, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST).

VOV.VN - Vietnam aspires to become one of the food innovation hubs of Asia, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh made the proposal at a UN gathering virtually hosted by Italy on July 27.

A programme to promote connections for technology supply and demand between Vietnamese and Japanese businesses was held virtually on July 20.

Representatives of the agriculture sector of Vietnam and Australia have agreed to accelerate work to allow the import of more farm produce of each other at the recent third Vietnam – Australia agriculture forum.

VOV.VN - The World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI), a new university ranking system run by the Hanseatic League of Universities, has honoured two Vietnamese in its global top 100 Innovative Universities.

The Vietnam Young Initiatives (InnoCity) 2021 competition, which aims to collect initiatives for the national creativity and innovation ecosystem, has been launched by the Vietnamese Student Association in the Netherlands and the Global Network of Young Vietnamese Intellectuals.

Hanoi is working on a plan to form a technology trading platform - a move considered critical for the development of the science-technology market in the capital and in Vietnam as a whole.