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Technology plays a key role in improving Vietnamese business productivity as well as the national socio economic development. The Ministry of Science and Technology has started a number of programs to aid businesses in key sectors including agriculture, healthcare, industrial production and telecommunications in adopting modern technology and developing artificial intelligence (AI).
The COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered severe social and economic disruption in 2021, has forced domestic businesses to double their digitalisation efforts and to utilise advanced technology to adapt to the new normal and extended periods of lockdown and mobility restrictions.
2021 saw the rapid development of the country's digital infrastructure and applications as a response to social distancing requirements.
Vietnam ranked 44/132 in the Global Innovation Index in 2021 with more than 18,500 scientific and technological discoveries, a 2.5 per cent increase compared to the previous year.
Vietnam has set a target to speed up the development of science and technology for the 2021-30 period with the establishment of modern research and development centres in both public and private sectors as a core mission objective.