Chương II Thông tư 07/2020/TT-BKHCN: Hướng dẫn việc thành lập cơ sở ươm tạo, cơ sở kỹ thuật, khu làm việc chung

Chapter II

GUIDELINES FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF INCUBATORS, TECHNICAL FACILITIES AND CO-WORKING SPACES

Article 5. Functions of incubators, technical facilities and co-working spaces

1. Functions of an incubator:

a) Assist in using machinery, equipment and technical infrastructure in order to perfect business ideas and technologies;

b) Provide consulting and education services including technology incubation, intellectual property, law, finance, corporate governance and investment connection;

c) Provide counseling on formulating business plans and models;

d) Provide necessary resources to support the development of SMEs in their early stage of establishment;

dd) Have an SME incubation process.

2. Functions of a technical facility:

a) Assist in using shared equipment to complete products, goods and services;

b) Assist in and provide one or more services based on functions and services, including measuring instrument and measurement standard design, verification, calibration and testing services; technology assessment, pricing and inspection; products and goods quality testing services; quality inspection services for products and goods currently in use; goods and services quality assessment services; product and management system certification services; conformity assessment body certification services.

3. Functions of a co-working space:

a) Provide co-working space, product showcasing space and office utilities to serve start-up activities.

b) Provide auxiliary services aimed at organizing events for investment matching and customer matching;

c) Offer start-up courses and training courses taught by start-up coaches and start-up investors.

Article 6. Organizational structure, technical infrastructure and financial resources of incubators

1. Regarding organizational structure:

a) The head of an incubator must have at least a bachelor’s degree and work experience related to one of the following consulting fields: investment, finance, assistance in enterprise development, technology incubation and enterprise incubation;

b) Consulting experts must have academic profiles and sign expert contracts with the incubator as prescribed by law. Consulting experts’ major and work experience must be suitable for the field on which they provide counseling;

c) Personnel in charge of operating machinery and equipment of the incubator must sign an employment contract with the incubator.

2. Regarding technical infrastructure:

a) Premises must be lawfully used in a manner that provides working space for incubatees, and space for meeting rooms and dedicated rooms;

b) There must be enough space available for incubation projects;

c) Laboratories or trial production areas must have machinery and equipment necessary for incubation activities;

d) Meeting rooms or halls must be fully furnished with suitable equipment to organize domestic and international seminars and conferences, and to be used as meeting rooms or for teamwork;

d) It is required to build database or entitled to use and operate database of technologies, technology experts and consulting experts related to incubation activities.

3. The incubator is required to prove the sources of finance that ensure its operation and implement plans to support entities involved in incubation.

4. Regulations applied to conditional business lines shall be satisfied as prescribed by law.

Article 7. Organizational structure, technical infrastructure and financial resources of technical facilities

1. Regarding organizational structure:

a) The head of a technical facility must have at least a bachelor’s degree and work experience in the fields of operations of the technical facility;

b) Consulting experts must have academic profiles and sign expert contracts with the technical facility as prescribed by law. Consulting experts’ major and work experience must be suitable for the field on which they provide counseling;

c) Personnel in charge of operating laboratories, machinery and equipment of the technical facility must sign an employment contract with the technical facility.

2. Regarding technical infrastructure:

a) Premises must be lawfully used in a manner that provides space for dedicated rooms;

b) Laboratories or inspection rooms must be furnished with essential equipment that ensures one or more activities including design, testing, measurement, analysis, assessment and inspection in order to perfect ideas, samples and products.

3. The technical facility is required to prove the sources of finance that ensure its operation and implement plans to support entities involved in provision of assistance and use of services at the technical facility.

4. Regulations applied to conditional business lines shall be satisfied as prescribed by law.

Article 8. Organizational structure, technical infrastructure and financial resources of co-working spaces

1. Regarding organizational structure:

a) The head of a co-working space must hold at least a bachelor’s degree;

b) Consulting experts must have academic profiles and sign expert contracts with the co-working space as prescribed by law;

c) Personnel must sign employment contracts with the co-working space to carry out operations, organize events, connect cooperation and match investment.

2. Regarding technical infrastructure:

a) Premises must be lawfully used in a manner that provides co-working space and space for dedicated rooms;

b) There must be enough space to showcase products and demonstrate technologies;

c) There must be meeting rooms or halls which are fully furnished with suitable equipment to organize domestic and international seminars and conferences, and to be used as meeting rooms or for teamwork;

d) There must be office utilities serving participants.

3. The co-working space is required to prove the sources of finance that ensure its operation and implement plans to support participants in the co-working space.