This paper provides also policy makers, scientists and businessmen with a global and new visions to S&T development process to achieve green and sustainable growth. In the declining context of environment, natural resources and impacts from climate changes, the green growth has become an avoidable trend in the world. It becomes a huge challenge for all the nations, particularly for developing countries including Vietnam. | Green growth and roles of technological innovations 10 GREEN GROWTH AND ROLES OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Ass. . Phan Minh Tan, Ass. . Nguyen Ky Phung Hochiminh City Department of Science and Technology Abstract: In the declining context of environment, natural resources and impacts from climate changes, the green growth has become an avoidable trend in the world. It becomes a huge challenge for all the nations, particularly for developing countries including Vietnam. In the evolution process to a green economy with a sustainable green growth, research and development (R&D) activities and technological innovations play the core roles no one can deny. This paper is focused on (i) presentation of related notions, (ii) clear identification of the roles of science-technology (S&T) development to achieve green growth, (iii) indication of difficulties and challenges, and (iv) proposal of new approaches and solutions to push up the S&T application for green growth in developing countries such as Vietnam. This paper provides also policy makers, scientists and businessmen with a global and new visions to S&T development process to achieve green and sustainable growth. Keywords: Green growth; R&D; Science-technology innovation; Green economy. Code: 13120501 1. General introduction S&T development plays important roles in the development of mankind. But the traditional way of development has led to serious consequences, threatened the continued existence of mankind, caused so many negative problems such as exhausted natural resources, lost bio diversity, recession, environment pollution and climate changes. Practice shows that in developed countries the most concerned problem is related to environment. As evidence for that, the most recent report by World Bank (WB) shows that the dust content in urban areas of the countries with low and mediumlow incomes is twice higher the one of the countries with medium and high incomes. As .
