Attracting diversified investment and development resources for public S&T organizations
According to Deputy Minister Tran Van Tung, the development of the planning of the system of public S&T organizations for the period of 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050 will help improve the autonomy and self-responsibility of public S&T organizations; attracting diversified investment and development resources for public S&T organizations.
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From 2017, implementing Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017 on continuing to renovate the organization and management system, improving the quality and performance of non-business units. Most ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies have kept the number of stable organizations, focused on reviewing functions and tasks, rearranging the structure in the direction of reducing direct focal points.
At the same time, promote the implementation of the autonomy mechanism, step by step transforming qualified scientific and technological research and service organizations to operate under the enterprise model or equitization; only establish new organizations in special cases, absolutely necessary due to practical requirements. Currently, there are about 200 public S&T organizations under the management competence of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government agencies.
However, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology, besides the achieved results, the planning of public S&T organizations also revealed some limitations when it did not form a strong network of S&T organizations, scale and capacity of organizations is still limited, the distribution is not reasonable among regions, and fields of activity, functions and tasks are still overlapping.
The operational efficiency of most S&T organizations is low and has not yet escaped the habit of being subsidized; converted numbers still face difficulties in autonomous operation. The number of S&T staff has increased in quantity, but the quality and capacity are still limited; The distribution of qualification structure is not reasonable by region, and field of activity.
Most of the documents related to the activities of S&T organizations mention detailed regulations (such as types, tasks, rights and obligations andetc.). There is no document with the nature of framework regulating the activities of S&T organizations. Each ministry, branch and locality has its own S&T organizations and manages the affiliated organizations in its own way.
As a result, the number of S&T organizations is large, small in scale, with duplicate functions, leading to scattered investments and inefficient operations. According to calculations, the scientific non-business funding from the state budget is mainly for salary and apparatus operation expenses for public S&T organizations (accounting for about 90% of scientific non-business expenditures); Funding for the implementation of S&T tasks is very limited, accounting for only about 10% of scientific non-business expenses, although S&T activities are the main activities of S&T organizations.
According to Deputy Minister Tran Van Tung, the planning will adjust the entire system of public S&T organizations nationwide in the new period; accelerate the restructuring process, in order to improve the operational efficiency of public S&T organizations, in line with the investment capacity of the state budget. At the same time, improving the autonomy and self-responsibility of public S&T organizations; attracting diversified investment and development resources for public S&T organizations.
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