Vietnam has been ranked 76th among 141 countries in overall innovation performance, according to the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2012 published by the business school INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations.
The Ministry of Science and Technology held a conference to review the action plan for preventing and handling intellectual property rights violations (Plan 168). According to the Ministry of Science and Technology's latest statistics, 4,577 intellectual property right violations were discovered by inspectors in ministries and local authorities.
