DEVELOPMENT POLICY ON THE INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATION OF THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MARKET IN SOME COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD - LESSONS FOR VIETNAM

For Vietnam, science and technology (S&T) is the leading national policy, the foundation and driving force of industrialization and modernization, affirmed and thoroughly understood in many documents of the Party during the renovation period. For S&T to perform well in its leading role and driving force for socioeconomic development, countries around the world, including Vietnam, often focus on developing the S&T market. The S&T market can be understood as a place where buying, selling, exchanging, and transferring ownership of technological goods occur; It also includes mechanisms and policies to allocate resources to ensure the smooth and successful transaction and transfer of technology goods. Aim to develop the S&T market, it is necessary to have technological goods, technology suppliers, technology demanders, technology intermediary institutions/organizations, and institutions to ensure the maintenance and development of the market. Experiences of countries around the world show that the formation/development of the S&T market intermediary organizations plays an essential role in developing the S&T market. However, the formation and development of the S&T market intermediaries depend on many factors. Therefore, for Vietnam to develop the S&T market intermediaries, it is necessary to summarize the experiences of other countries in order to draw lessons and develop the direction of intermediaries following Vietnam's conditions. For that purpose, the paper will aim to clarify the concept of the S&T market intermediaries, experience the formation and development of intermediaries in the S&T market in some countries around the world, and then give the lessons on the development S&T market intermediaries in Vietnam.