Improving Teaching and Entrepreneurship Consulting Capacity for Faculty – T.O.T

Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW sets a target of 2 million businesses in Vietnam by 2030, while currently there are only over 900,000. This requires each locality to at least double the number of businesses in the next 4-5 years. Simultaneously, Resolution 57-NQ/TW emphasizes the development of innovation, technology, and high-intellectual-content products to enhance the competitiveness of Vietnamese businesses in regional and international markets.

To achieve these two major national goals, the role of experts, advisors, and startup lecturers becomes particularly important, with the following responsibilities:

• Encouraging and advising on the establishment of new businesses;

• Supporting young business leaders in building their organizations and developing markets;

• Connecting resources, advising on products, brands, markets, and capital;

• Contributing to the formation of a strong and sustainable startup ecosystem in each locality, school, and organization.

With this particularly important role, the National Startup Association recently organized the first National Startup Instructor Training Course with 147 participants, including entrepreneurs, founders, lecturers, and experts from various organizations. On November 28th, after nearly four months of intensive study with over 40 in-person and online sessions, the first course held its graduation ceremony, and 60 outstanding participants were recognized as National Startup Experts.

The success of the first course provides an important foundation for the Association to continue implementing the second course with a larger scale, content, and improved training quality.

The program is positioned as a strategic initiative, directly addressing the urgent need for high-quality human resources in Vietnam's startup ecosystem. This is necessary in the context of the nation having clearly identified entrepreneurship and innovation as core drivers for socio-economic development, and as a measure of national competitiveness. The long-term national goal is to create a knowledge-based economy, deeply integrated, requiring a strong shift in the structure of the production forces.
1.2. Purpose, Significance and Training Objectives
The program is designed with a close combination of academic and strategic action objectives, ensuring that graduates can become comprehensive experts capable of effectively teaching and mentoring entrepreneurship.
Purpose and Significance:
The core purpose of the Program is to develop a team of national entrepreneurship experts, mentors, and lecturers capable of meeting the requirements of the National Development Strategy, especially the goal of 2 million businesses by 2030 and promoting Innovation. The program also has the profound significance of providing a solid academic foundation, closely linking academic theory with the practical realities of entrepreneurship in Vietnam and globally, through the use of the book as a knowledge guide.

The success of the program will create a core force to help build a guiding compass not only for young founders but also for researchers, managers, and policymakers in the digital age, where artificial intelligence, big data, and digital transformation are profoundly changing the business environment.
Training Goals:
1. Teaching and Consulting Capabilities: Ensure instructors have the ability to deeply analyze the history of entrepreneurship theory, the qualities of a founder, and specific action tools. Instructors need to be able to transform knowledge from the book into practical lectures and training programs that meet high quality standards.
2. Comprehensive Strategic Skills: Equips instructors with comprehensive skills from A to Z of the entrepreneurial journey, including: founder qualities and capabilities, business strategy and planning, organizational management, finance, leadership, and entrepreneurial culture.

3. Grand-Oriented Thinking: Helps instructors effectively convey the entrepreneurial philosophy, dare to think big and act decisively, contributing to the cultivation of new, capable, and creative individuals for the prosperity of the country.
1.3. Target Audience and Instructors
Target Audience
The program is specifically designed for the following individuals, who play a key role in spreading the entrepreneurial spirit:
1. Instructors/Educational Management Staff: Teaching staff and consultants at universities, colleges, academies, and vocational education institutions are encouraged to integrate the entrepreneurial spirit into education.

2. Consulting/Mentoring Experts: Experts and startup mentors within the innovation support network, business incubator managers, and student startup support centers (organizations mentioned in Project 844).

3. Business Leaders: Experienced managers, presidents, or CEOs of businesses seeking to develop internal entrepreneurial spirit (intrapreneurship) and create sustainable value for society.