Conference boosts start-up in Da Nang

The Embassy of Australia in Vietnam and HATCH! VENTURES – a social enterprise and startup incubator, jointly held a conference to boost startups in the central city of Da Nang on October 7.
Conference boosts start-up in Da Nang ảnh 1Staffers of Lozi, a start-up online food review community, at their office. Illustrative photo (Source: Tuoi Tre)

DaNang (VNA)
– The Embassy of Australia in Vietnam and HATCH! VENTURES– a social enterprise and startup incubator, jointly held a conference to booststartups in the central city of Da Nang on October 7.

Theevent, the fifth of its kind and the first in Da Nang, drew 200 local start-uppersand students.

Addressingthe event, Australian Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam Layton Pike highlighted thefriendship based on mutual assistance between Vietnam and Australia, sayingthat the Government of Australia highly valued the efforts of HATCH! withsupport programmes for startups and startup investment in Vietnam.

PhamTrung, Deputy Director of the Da Nang Business Incubator saidthe city has taken breakthrough steps to boost startups, including establishingthe nation’s first public-private partnership (PPP)-based business incubatorand organising annual startup events.

DaNang has also launched a project on developing a startupecosystem until 2020, with a vision that the city will become thestartup and innovation hub of ASEAN region by 2030.

Theproject aims to develop a startup culture and enhance the awareness among localyoung people about startups, while completing and issuing relevant policies.

Investmentwill be made in local business incubators and infrastructure for startups, and indeveloping a training system on startup.

Cooperationwill also be forged to mobilise more domestic and foreign resources indeveloping the startup ecosystem, with a focus on the PPP models.-VNA
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