VIETNAM
Contact person:
Tran Thu Lan
e-mail: tlan@vista.gov.vn
Description of the institution
The Institute of Oceanography (IO) is under the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology. It has several tasks, for instance: research on the scientific and technological problems, coordination with the research and producing agencies in the country to implement and apply of the research results into the production and life, transmission of the advanced technologies in the above mentioned fields from the foreign countries into Vietnam,
developing international cooperation.
General Science and Technology policy issues
The Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology is the governing body in the national innovation system. There exist also some important institutions, like the University of Science, VNU Hanoi and VNU HCM, the Nha Trang University and the Institute of Oceanography, which cooperate in the field of research and teaching as well.
This institute's international S&T programmes are financed sometimes by government funding, but mostly by public-private-partnerships.