Network of Innovation Actors

What this workstream is about

The Network of Innovation Actors workstream is dedicated to strengthening national innovation ecosystem by facilitating and supporting the collaboration among key stakeholders, such as government agencies, academia, the private sector, and the communities to foster information exchange, knowledge sharing, and more effective resource mobilisation. Building on the success of Phase One, Agriculture and Food remains to be the focused area.  Central to this workstream is the continued effort to build intermediary capacity to key actors, and demonstrating novel intermediary models to bridge the gaps in the innovation network and enable a more effective interaction so that challenges can be solved through innovative solutions.

Capacity building initiatives

Targeted training, workshops, and networking events have been designed and delivered to partners to enhance their ability to share and discuss their issues, access to knowledge and information, and ultimately coming up with joint solutions to solve the common challenges. Among these discussions, inclusive matters such as gender equality, engaging with people with disability, and social inclusion have been substantially embedded to ensure that innovation achieved will be sustainable and inclusive.

Intermediary models co-designed and developed

Building on the experiments from phase 1, the Network of Innovation Actors continue in phase 2 to work closely with partners in the innovation system to enhance different types of intermediary models, which aim to building the resilience and absorptive capacity for selected industry, or the innovation capacity to support inclusive and sustainable development at a regional scale. Four models are being demonstrated at the moment, including:

• The Horticulture Innovation Club (HIC)
• The Pig Biosecurity Innovation Alliance (PBIA)
• The Central Highland Innovation Cluster (CHIC)
• The Mekong Aquaculture Innovation Cluster 

Enabling environment strengthened

Expanding upon previous efforts to support priorities from the Government to further commercialisation capacity and developing the science and technology market, the team will continue strengthening the excellent collaboration between Australian and Vietnamese experts for effective sharing of knowledge and technology around commercialisation. Deep-dive joint research, insights and lessons captured from the work on the ground will be used to informed policies to address bottlenecks that hinder commercialisation processes, as well we the development of the science and technology market.