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More organisations are offering new financial products and services that are changing the form and nature of the market and are shaping the future of financial inclusion.

The Vietnam – Finland Innovation Partnership Programme Phase 2 (IPP) held the IPP Harvest Day in Hanoi last week to review its activities and orchestrate its exit phase.

An initiative designed to support and connect women’s startup businesses in Vietnam and Mekong countries was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on March 8.

Businesses should be innovative and creative in using Information Technology (IT) advances to grow, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said on February 26.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has encouraged the press to strongly promote innovation and creativity in society and of every individual in the new year of 2017.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said it is necessary for Vietnam to shift its natural resources-based industrial sector to the innovation-based one.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade should reduce industrial development’s dependence on natural resources while fostering innovation-based industries, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Jan. 6.

All enterprises, including small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are responsible for developing and applying technology, and the business circle must be the centre of innovation, heard a seminar.

Vietnam has huge potential for startup businesses, however the country’s startup ecosystem is still young compared to other countries in region and the world.

Singapore officially put its newly-launched Innovation Centre (SGInnovate) into operation on November 24 with the goal of connecting scientists, enterprises and financial resources to promote the application of technology into creativity and economic and social innovation.

The fifth dialogue between the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Social Democratic Party of Germany, themed “Developing small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam and Germany”, opened in Hanoi.

A two-day startup festival (TechFest Vietnam 2016) that concluded in Hanoi on November 13 attracted nearly 170 investors and more than 3,000 visitors, according to the organisers.

Norihiro Imada, deputy director of the business plan division of Honda Motor Co. Ltd., said that the company will try to better understand customer’s taste to develop its products.

The first Laos International ICT Expo will be held in the capital city of Vientiane from December 14-18, according to the Lao News Agency (KPL).

Representatives from domestic and foreign financial investment funds, business development organisations and projects gathered at an international forum in Thai Nguyen on November 10.

A forum enhancing innovation took place in Hanoi on Nov. 1.

The US Embassy in Vietnam and Arizona State University co-organised a forum in Hanoi on November 1 with a view to promoting the innovation campaign in the Southeast Asian country.

The Vietnam Information Technology Outsourcing Alliance (VNITO) and the non-profit Japan Information Service Innovation Partners Association (JASIPA) have signed a memorandum of understanding

Around 60 plays by artists from over 20 countries have registered to take part in the 3rd International Experimental Theater Festival, which will be held from November 12-19 in Hanoi.

Vietnamese and Swedish experts discussed measures to promote sustainable development on the basis of innovation and creativity at a seminar in Hanoi on October 5.