(VOVWORLD) -Ho Chi Minh City’s I-Star 2023 competition was launched on Thursday, honoring contributions to the city’s innovation and start-up activities.
 Top 10 Innovative Start-ups – I-Star 2022 (Photo: dangcongsan.vn) |
The competition, in its sixth year, aims to create a sustainable start-up and innovation ecosystem and spread the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship in all areas of social life.
Nguyen Viet Dung, Director of the municipal Department of Science and Technology, insisted that the global economic recession is having an effect on innovation and start-up activities.
“But the difficulties are also creating opportunities, so we hope the innovation and startup community will follow the model of starting a business step by step, creating new opportunities for development, and applying AI to address the problems faced by the Vietnamese market,” said Dung.
I-Star 2023 emphasises digital transformation solutions in such areas as administrative reform and modern urban management, smart health and education, and technology solutions for smart cities.