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 laws 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 that the social revolution lags behind the scientific and technological revolution, but if it is too late, it is... stagnation. Progress can still be predicted, but stagnation is difficult to predict complications.

If we compare the 4 industrial revolutions to 4 train "cars" running over a period of 300 years, then Vietnam is a "passenger" who started boarding the 3rd "car" 40 years ago - the industrial revolution of electronics, semiconductors, computers, Internet communications - but worked as a mechanic in the 1st "car" more than 200 years ago - the industrial revolution of steam engines, mechanics and the 2nd "car" more than 100 years ago - the industry of internal combustion engines, mechanics - electricity, 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 establishes 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 closed, and when there are many passengers on planes, it is difficult to limit “airline jams”. Whatever is difficult to manage, it is banned! That means management in the style of taking subjective shortcomings to make objective ones miserable, how can society develop? People only know how to comply with “the law”, “in accordance with procedures”.

To overcome the stagnation of the organizational apparatus, there must be a law on competition for talent. Openly recruit people into the apparatus, fight against 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 removed, copyright protected; loss-making state-owned enterprises dissolved. All state activities, except for security and defense issues, must be made transparent. If institutional innovation is not timely, the journey to a constructive government will be slow.

Spring is the beginning. I hope that this Spring of 1917 will begin a social innovation in institutions and mechanisms, creating a foundation for the Government to create and operate the administrative and economic foundation at the pace of the world's 4th 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 any "newness" 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