INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Student’s full name: Tran Ngoc Hoa 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: 9 July 1970 4. Place of birth: Namdinh city 5. Decision for enrolment administration: 2562/2007/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH, date 7/11/2007 signed by the hand of university of social science and humanities Vietnam (under national university of national Hanoi) 5. Changes during education process: None 7. Name’s thesis: Improve autonomy institutions of organization in charge of sciences and technology (case study of unit/organization using state’s budget” 8. Field of study: Policies on science and technology. 9. Code number: 60.34.70 9. Name of advisor: Dr. Mai Ha, Chief of National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies. 10. Summary of The thesis 1. Key achieved results: + The thesis presents theoretical basis of autonomy institutions by science and technology organizations in generally, R-D organizations in particularly; their roles, features and requirements in the market-orientated economy, experiences of some countries in the world in implementing this issues, experience for R- D investment in some countries. + Implementation of autonomy institutions of science and technology organizations, R- D organizations that using the stage’s budget is shown in 2 periods: o The first period: since the start of the innovation process to the establishment of Law on Science and Technology (2000) o The second period: since the establishment of Law on Science and Technology up to the date At each stage, the thesis clarifies strengths as well as weaknesses in executing autonomy institutions in the process of promulgating legal documents in this regard and provide comparison with models of some countries; reviews its implementations in recent years by the organizations in fields of science and technology and R&D; analyzes root-causes and limitations. Also, the thesis introduce some general potentials on science and technology in Vietnam to find strengths and weakness in this system while implement autonomy institution. + Provide some solutions to improve autonomy institutions for the 2 target organizations with focus on 2 major solutions and 5 key contents as below: On macro solutions: mention preparation and issuance of policy framework for science and technology covering the national innovation system (NIS), Science and Technology Strategy towards 2020, simultaneously improving the legal system for autonomy institution for organizations operated in the fields of science and technology and R-D and using the state’s budget On micro solutions: focuses on 5 groups of issues Build up criteria for R-D classification system so as to determine its autonomy rights and criteria for effective assessment of R-D organizations using the state’s budget as mentioned in regional and international standards. - On legislative aspect: Continues improving regulations on autonomy rights in term of concretizing and ensure its feasibility. - On Human Resouse aspect: Enhance qualification of officials and heads of organizations in charge of science and technology in the field of economy. - On mechanism and policies: Improve financial regulations so as to encourage sciences and technology activities, revise financial investment mechanism and policies for science and technology activities, and encourage business investing for technology innovation. On organizational structure: Improve working mechanism of the state administrations in science and technology Withdraw conclusions and recommendations 11. Applicability in practice: None 12. Follow-up research: None 13. Published researches related to the thesis: None