Xinova, Ministry of Science and Tech to cooperate in innovation center development
Facilitated by 8870 Link, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on November 28 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with U.S. firm Xinova Group to establish an innovation center in Hanoi
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The female startup of Vietnam
Rarely appears on the newspaper but Tran Mai Huong is not a new name in Vietnamese fashion industry. She is the co-founder of Coco Sin, the first fast-fashion brand in Vietnam in 2012, when Zara, H & M, TopShop brands have not joined the game .
This is one of the first Vietnamese brands to be able to introduce a collection of more than 30 designs a month and continuously innovate through a closed-loop design-production-retail process. In less than 3 years, CocoSin has become a favorite brand among young Vietnamese and is one of the highest selling salons in Zalora in 2015.
Next generation to find new direction for handicrafts
Although the export turnover of handicrafts (Fine Arts) has increased steadily over the years, the added value of the industry is not large. As one of the reasons, Vietnamese handicraft is always considered as not having its own mark, it is less competitive in design than other countries in the region such as Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines ... so selling price And the profit is low, not enough resources to reinvest in development.
As Vietnamese handicraft products are gradually losing their export advantage, profits are not enough to reinvest in the future, handicraft villages will be lost in the future, workers will change to work. at the local manufacturing plants.
http://www.thesaigontimes.vn/269954/The-he-ke-thua-tim-huong-di-moi-cho-thu-cong-my-nghe.html
Start-up Talk - Innovation and startup economies
When asked what field she will be interested in next, Mai Huong, founder of the Coco Sin brand, Fibrer, 8870 Link also shared, the software sector will be the next market she will start up business if the opportunity. "I also have a special interest in Big Data.With the huge data on user behavior, you will have to use Big Data to understand the customer. Big data will solve many problems: for example, how many products to produce, the life of a season ... "
http://nhipcaudautu.vn/doanh-nghiep/tim-duong-cho-startup-viet-nam-tai-thi-truong-quoc-te-3322874/