Intuitive awareness of science and technology (S&T) roles towards production appeared early. Tough binding of S&T and production was emphasized in many economic doctrines. Up to now, the practical awareness of this issue, however, remains limited in many aspects. | 14 AWARENESS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROLES TOWARDS SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT . Nguyen Tien Cuong General Planning Dept., Ministry of Science and Technology Dr. Hoang Xuan Long National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies Abstract: Intuitive awareness of science and technology (S&T) roles towards production appeared early. Tough binding of S&T and production was emphasized in many economic doctrines. Up to now, the practical awareness of this issue, however, remains limited in many aspects. There exist many reasons to explain the fact why the awareness of S&T roles towards socio-economic development is a long and complicated process. Namely, S&T makes impacts not only directly to actual production processes but also indirectly to global aspects of production activities; there are so many components of production activities falling under impacts from S&T such as labors, production means and materials. Impacts from S&T may be strong but unequally dispatched and it is also difficult to evaluate impacts/contributions of S&T to economic activities. There exists certain gaps between S&T research and application activities and between the rightness and usefulness in scientific research. There are also difficulties in S&T development management. International experience shows that there are concrete solutions to settle difficulties and pro-actively to promote the awareness of S&T roles towards socio-economic development. Keywords: Science-technology roles; Socio-economic development; Production activities. Code: 14120201 1. Awareness of science and technology roles towards socio-economic development passes a long and complicated process of development The intuitive awareness of S&T roles towards production appeared early. The clearest evidence of that come from Greek myths about gods of techniques (who created techniques and transferred them to the human), namely Athena is the Goddess of cultivation, Hephaistos is the God .
