(VOVWORLD) - 2023 saw new milestones in Vietnamese innovation, which moved Vietnam up 2 places to 46 of 132 countries and territories in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2023 Global Innovation Index. Vietnam’s National Innovation Center (NIC) played a key role in the achievements. What will NIC do in 2024 to sustain last year’s achievements? To find out, VOV24/7 talked to Nguyen Ngoc Dung, Senior Expert for NIC’s Entrepreneurship-Innovation Ecosystem. Ms. Dung, an advisor and mentor for Silicon Valley startups, spent 7 years working for the Office for Science and Technology at Vietnam’s General Consulate in San Francisco.