The workshop provided information on the GII 2025 report, methodological adjustments, the significance of the index, innovation trends and Viet Nam’s prospects in the coming years.
In his opening remarks, Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung stressed that Viet Nam’s innovation must be nationwide. Innovation must bring science and technology into real-life practice, solve Viet Nam’s pressing challenges, and foster a spirit of innovation across the population. Innovation should become a lifestyle and a way of life for every citizen and organisation, building a start-up nation based on digital technology and innovation.
He also called on WIPO to implement a programme supporting Viet Nam in climbing the GII rankings, aiming to reach the global top 30 within the next 5–10 years.
To further improve Viet Nam’s position on the GII, Minister Hung outlined four key groups of solutions: perfecting innovation institutions and the environment; investing in science, technology, innovation and digital infrastructure; developing high-quality human resources; and promoting innovation in enterprises.
WIPO Director General Daren Tang highly valued Viet Nam’s strong progress. He noted that Viet Nam has set ambitious goals of becoming an upper-middle-income industrialised country by 2030 and a high-income country by 2045. To achieve this, innovation and intellectual property will be key, with Resolution 57 serving as a guiding framework to transform science, technology and innovation into the central driving force for development.
According to the GII 2025 report, Viet Nam ranks 44th out of 139 economies, 2nd out of 37 in the lower-middle-income group, and 9th in Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania. Notably, Viet Nam has consistently outperformed its income group for more than a decade.
A series of indicators highlight Viet Nam’s strengths, such as the share of high-tech trade in imports and exports, creative goods exports, labour productivity growth, and mobile app creation.
One of the key factors enabling Viet Nam to maintain this outstanding performance is governance. Since 2017, the Government has regarded the GII as a management tool and continuously introduced measures to improve individual indicators.
In addition, Viet Nam has “localised” the GII into the Provincial Innovation Index (PII), enabling provinces to self-assess and compete constructively, while also issuing intellectual property policies closely linked with innovation.
