How the System Works
In regional context: a system that grew fast and now faces the questions growth creates
Rapid growth in output raises a different set of questions than slow growth does, and Vietnam is now facing them.
How the System Works
The institutional map of Vietnamese research and who holds decision-making power.
How the System Works
How the System Works
How decisions get made: consensus takes longer and holds better
A decision that appears slow is often a decision being built to survive, rather than one being announced.
How the System Works
Language: fluent English does not mean the same meanings arrived
The failures that damage collaborations happen between people who both speak good English and both believed the meeting went well.
How the System Works
Research careers: what your partner is evaluated on, and why it shapes the project
A collaboration that ignores how your partner is assessed is quietly costing them something.
How the System Works
How research is organised in Vietnam: four sectors, four different logics
Treating Vietnamese research as a single system obscures the fact that four sectors operate on entirely different incentives.
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