Ben Tre Enterprise: Improve productivity thanks to innovation

Implementing the Prime Minister’s direction on innovation, with the motto of being enterprise-centered to support innovation and creation, Ben Tre province is determined to promote labor productivity and enhance competitiveness paintings of enterprises; linking cooperation between science and technology organizations with enterprises and industrial parks in the province in order to commercialize and put research results into practice in production and business thereby improving the quality of amount.

Local innovation has applied achievements, management solutions, techniques and technologies to improve the effectiveness of socioeconomic development, productivity, quality, and added value of production products and goods. Thereby contributing to promoting local creativity, such as product innovation, research and development (R&D), technology transfer, companies based on new technology, needs and competition, policy of the State, human resources, etc. For businesses, a number of innovative activities must include such as: Researching on developing and innovating new or improved products, goods and services to be more suitable for use purposes; innovate in organization and management, improve the working environment of workers; access to productivity improvement tools, cost reduction, etc.

Practice shows that innovation in Ben Tre focuses on increasing efficiency and productivity for businesses, production organizations in the fields of industry, agriculture and services. In particular, the innovation of canned coconut water, especially canned coconut water like coconut without using preservatives is considered the most typical. After processing, coconut water retains its original flavor, color and nutritional value; On the other hand, canned coconut water is 300 times more valuable than traditional fresh coconut water.

Innovating business model in an enterprise means that enterprises based on intelligence, technology and business models are reconnected into a new business system to help businesses have the ability to grow quickly from existing models. Figures are available to make a truly suitable choice for the development of the business. The typical example for renewing the business model of the province is at My Chanh Agricultural Cooperative. The cooperative attracted 200 members to participate with a charter capital of up to 10 billion, thus becoming a typical example in implementing the service contract of providing input reduced by 5 – 10% depending on each type of service. and the acquisition of output increased by 10% for members of the cooperative compared to the outside market. The consumption market expanded to the Northern provinces, revenue reached up to 45 billion.

In addition, the impressive technological innovation, achievement of the province cannot fail to mention is the research, development and application of the process of extracting pure coconut oil (VCO). This technology is first applied in our country, in Luong Quoi Coconut Processing Co., Ltd., the technology of centrifugal without heating according to industrial scale with a capacity of up to 300 liters / hour. The effect showed that the product quality, increased significantly. Coconut oil generated is worth 4 times higher than refined coconut oil and 10 times higher than crude coconut oil, meeting the increasing needs of customers.

Productivity and Quality Office