The park’s Research and Development Centre has tied up with the university’s Integrated Chip Design Research and Education Centre as has the former’s incubation centre with the Digital Control and System Engineering Lab.

Students visit GHP company at the Quang Trung software park. The HCM City hi-tech park has tied up with the Viet Nam National University in research and training.

To provide quality human resources for its tenants, the park has joined with them to provide scholarships to students and set up curriculums to suit their high-tech requirements.

Its training centre also providestraining in soft skills, technical skills and technical English for workers.

In 2004, the park established the SHTP Research & Development Centre with a mission to carry out research and commer-cialise Vietnamese-made technology products.

It joined the Asia Science Parks Association in 2007 and works closely with US universities like Georgetown and Baylor to research into venture capital, marketing, outsourcing and support industries. In 2006, Intel signed an agreement to set up a US$1 billion plant.

The park has said it will give priority to clearing land and relocating people, computerising its administration and improving infrastructure to attract more foreign investments.

In the seven years since it opened, 13 out of 30 licensed projects are in operation, providing 8,000 jobs and achieving cumulative exports of $318 million.

Three more plants are under construction. By the end of this year, six companies will begin operations. Intel will start production in the second quarter of next year.