Finland helps innovate businesses in Danang

March 03, 2011 | 07:25

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The role of innovation in successful business activities and how to access a Finnish-sponsored project in this area have been introduced in the central coastal city of Danang .

At a seminar on the Vietnam-Finland Innovation Partnership Programme (IPP) in Danang on March 2, IPP’s project director Tran Quoc Thang said that the IPP is an official development cooperation project between Vietnam and Finland .

The five-year project which has been carried out in eight provinces and cities since September 2008 aims to improve and promote innovation in Vietnamese businesses and organisations, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, personnel training in the field and enhance the Vietnamese-Finnish partnership.

IPP will sponsor three projects under the Danang Science and Technology Department for the 2011-2012 period. They include building and improving the capacity of the Danang Biological Technology Centre, devising a policy to assist technological renovation in Danang City and a project using photo-electricity and LED technology to ensure safety for fishermen and develop the fishing industry in Danang .

Danang now has around 12,000 small and medium-sized enterprises that employ around 97,000 workers.

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