The Urge for Innovation for the Journey of Creation

Time renews itself with Spring. Forests “renew” by changing their leaves. A country must renew itself, according to the law of motion of reality, in order to develop.

Time has age. More precisely, it is the cycle of nature, of creation - with a beginning and an end. Spring is the beginning of a new year. It is also a sign of time to end a unit of time - the old year. Thus, self-renewal is not only present in all things but also a property of time.

Self-renewal is not only inherent in all things but also a property of time. Photo VNN.

The stages of social and technological development are often called revolutions. From the 18th century to the present, the industrial revolution has been going through 4 times, and the social revolution, although taking place continuously, has not yet been as expected. It is natural for the social revolution to lag behind the scientific and technological revolution, but if it is too late, it is... stagnation. Progress can still be predicted, but stagnation is unpredictable in its complications.

If we compare the 4 industrial revolutions to 4 train "cars" running on a 300-year time span, then Vietnam is a "passenger" who started boarding the 3rd "car" 40 years ago - the industrial revolution of electronics, semiconductors, computers, and Internet communications - but worked as a mechanic in the first "car" more than 200 years ago - the industrial revolution of steam engines and mechanics and the second "car" more than 100 years ago - the industrial revolution of internal combustion engines, mechanics, and electrification - in the mid-19th century.

At a press conference on January 18 on the sidelines of the Davos conference, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc also shared with international press agencies about Vietnam's determination to integrate comprehensively and deeply. He affirmed that "Vietnam is focusing on building an honest, creative government that best serves the people and businesses, considering the success of investors as its own success."

Innovation is not about changing concepts but about changing the way of thinking and doing things specifically, within the institutional category. If the government innovates but the institutions do not innovate in time, it will be difficult to reach the goal. So a second innovation is needed.

It is necessary to assign, delegate, and assign specific responsibilities to create a balance and control of power. These are the solid pillars of the institutional house.

We must "create" a legal corridor for business activities; resolutely implement legal sanctions for economic violations, economic contracts and harmful environmental impacts caused by human activities. Or the government wants to reclaim people's land, so it sets up projects, plans and carries out compensation "in accordance with procedures", "in accordance with legal regulations". Poor traffic and urban management means that whenever there is a traffic jam, the road is banned, and when there are many air passengers, it is difficult to limit "airline jams". Whatever is difficult to manage, it is banned! That is, if management is based on taking subjective shortcomings to make objective ones suffer, how can society develop? People only know how to comply with "the law" and "the process".

To overcome the stagnation of the organizational apparatus, there must be a law on competition for talent. Openly recruit people into the apparatus, and prevent the phenomenon of "relatives" being concentrated in one locality or one state agency - the phenomenon of cliques, nepotism, and clinging to positions.

The model of a constructive government also requires the creation of a more open and innovative legal corridor. Photo: VNN

The model of a constructive government also requires the creation of a more open and innovative legal corridor: People need to have their property rights to land recognized by law, land use limits abolished, copyright protection protected; loss-making state-owned enterprises dissolved. All State activities, except for security and defense issues, must be made transparent. If institutions are not innovated in a timely manner, the journey to a constructive government will be slow.

Spring is the beginning. I hope that this Spring of 1917 will start a social innovation in institutions and mechanisms, creating a foundation for the Government to create and operate the administrative and economic system at the pace of the world's fourth industrial revolution. The lag from subsidized bureaucracy to "Innovation" is only 10 years. Innovation has been going on for 30 years now, it is no longer new, and its lag, as reflected, has been at least more than 15 years without seeing "new" anymore. Are we falling into stagnation and stuck in the "middle income trap"?

Time renews itself with Spring. Forests “renew” by changing their leaves. A country must renew itself, according to the law of motion of reality - only then can it develop.

According to VNN