Saigon Hi-Tech Park — Ho Chi Minh City's Technology Transfer & Commercialisation Engine

Saigon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) is a special economic-technology zone in Ho Chi Minh City's Thu Duc City area, established by the municipal government to attract high-tech foreign direct investment and build a domestic technology-transfer and R&D ecosystem around it.

By 2011 the park hosted 26 companies with about $2 billion in registered investment and more than 11,000 employees, according to contemporaneous reporting. By 2025 it had grown to more than 160 active projects worth over $13.7 billion in registered investment — including major foreign investors such as Intel (over $1.5 billion invested, employing close to 6,000 people) — and state media reported a 2025 production value of roughly $23 billion, with a cumulative production value since inception exceeding $176 billion and cumulative exports surpassing $100 billion by the end of 2025.

SHTP's in-house Research and Development Centre, established in 2004, has run 17 national/ministerial/city-level research projects and over 100 grassroots-level projects, filed 13 patents, and commercialised or transferred around 20 research results to industry — including a silicon-carbide pressure-sensor system deployed at 20 locations across Thu Duc City since 2019, and a nano-curcumin material developed in 2013 and commercialised in 2016. Park-wide, SHTP reports holding nine international patents, close to 60 national patents and 155 industrial-property titles, with its SHTP Labs unit crediting 18 patents, 20 commercialised research ideas and over 120 published scientific papers.

The figures above are drawn from Vietnamese state-run and state-affiliated media (Việt Nam News, VietNamNet, Sài Gòn Giải Phóng) rather than independently audited sources, so they should be read as the park authority's own accounting of its performance rather than third-party verification.

Read the full analysis: https://vietnamnews.vn/economy/1766467/saigon-high-tech-park-consolidates-role-as-sci-tech-nucleus.html