VKIST and KVIP Leader
In the meeting, there is Leader of VKIST - President Kum Dongwha; expert from Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Head Secretariat. From KVIP there is Mr. Pham Minh Quoc, Director of KVIP, Mr. Tran Ha Dong Quan, Deputy Director of KVIP and Mr. Ki Yull Yu, Korean expert working in KVIP.
Constructed from the end of November 2013 in Tra Noc 2 Industry Zone, Phuoc Thoi ward, O Mon district (Can Tho), KVIP has a total investment of 21 million USD. Therein, the nonrefundable aid budget of the Korean government is nearly 17,7 million USD. The counterpart funding of Vietnam arranged by Can Tho’s People Committee from the annual budget worth estimately 3,4 million USD. KVIP operates by the formula: Korea equipments + local experts, hence KVIP does not waste time, human resource, expense for research activities satisfying the demand of enterprises.
According to Mr. Pham Minh Quoc, KVIP is currently facing some difficulties such as: the difficulty when calling for enterprises into the incubator. The incubator only incubates 3 fields: agriculture, aquaculture processing and mechanics. The condition for enterprises to participate in incubation is that they need to have ideas for new product, relating to these 3 fields. Aside, the promotion, introduction of the incubator is not systematic, affecting the approach to potential enterprises; the incubator has incentive policy, but still face difficulties when deploy because there is no synchronized mechanism and lastly the staffs line-up of KVIP although young, passionate, but do not have much experience in managing, operating a big scale facility”.
During the visit, the two sides have agreed on sharing the success and difficulties in the operation process to together unravel, and establish plan for joint projects in the future.
