VNU is asserting its role as the national center for research, development, and technology transfer by building a comprehensive science and technology ecosystem and mechanisms to promote commercialization through the “Lab to Market” value chain. In addition to infrastructure consolidation, VNU has diversified resources to enhance research capacity at the interdisciplinary research campus in Hoa Lac, covering 22.9 hectares with 110,000 m² of floor space to develop an advanced research complex focusing on core and breakthrough technologies, generating products with strong potential for transfer and commercialization, thereby contributing directly to socio-economic development. VNU’s comprehensive science and technology ecosystem includes research institutes, R&D enterprises, key laboratories, and VNU Technology and Innovation Park (VNU-TIP).
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During the period 2021-2025, VNU carried out 252 technology transfer contracts with a total estimated value of 87 billion VND and was granted 58 patents and utility solutions. VNU focused on several priority technology areas, including digital technologies (AI/IoT and digital transformation), chips and semiconductors, biotechnology for agriculture and health sciences, and environmental, energy, and advanced materials technologies, while also expanding into frontier areas such as quantum technologies.
Leveraging its role as a national R&D hub, VNU collaborates with the Ministry of Science and Technology to implement key science and technology programs for 2025-2030, aiming to develop strategic technology products, accelerate research commercialization, and contribute effectively to knowledge-based economic growth.
Currently, VNU has implemented four VNU-level key science and technology programs linked to strategic industrial technology sectors and oriented toward strategic technology products with potential for transfer and commercialization. Notable programs focus on the design and fabrication of next-generation chips and smart devices; research and application of science and technology to enhance diagnostic and treatment capabilities and develop herbal-based products; and synthetic biology to support green growth and improve public health, while also aligning with basic science development directions under the national program for the 2017-2025 period.
In line with Resolution 57-NQ/TW, VNU promotes the tripartite (University-State-Entrepreneurs/Scholars) model, aiming to systematize product portfolios and increase the technology transfer rate. In 2025, VNU packaged 50 science and technology products in the fields of AI/IoT, semiconductors, and advanced materials for transfer and commercialization, while developing an AI research program for 2025-2030 to focus on application-oriented products serving education, healthcare, agriculture, and sustainable development.
Regarding commissioned cooperation, VNU has strengthened collaboration with localities to develop tasks that meet practical needs; project documents indicate ongoing discussions and planned partnerships with localities such as Ca Mau, Hanoi, Hung Yen (formerly Thai Binh), corporations like VNPT, PVN, T&T, BRG, MK Group, among others, to accelerate the implementation of related initiatives.
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Notably, the system of strategic technology tasks and products being developed by VNU is designed to be “market-ready”, focusing on 17 proposed strategic technology products across advanced chip and semiconductor fields (quantum chips, thermal imaging chips, AI chips, 5G/IoT chips, Lab-on-a-Chip, etc.), new materials, biotechnology and biomedical technology, environmental and life technologies, and digital technologies – applied AI.
