Cultural Barriers to International Cooperation on Innovation Training: The Case of I-SMEs Project in Vietnam

As the innovation is increasingly important, training of business innovation is becoming popular. In developing countries like Vietnam, training mostly involves foreign partners as they provide experience and knowledge that domestic lecturers are lack. Through completed Finnish-Vietnam joint training projects on business innovation, we analyzed the feedbacks of all participants, foreign and domestic lecturers. Results show that the international cooperation is among the critical factors to deliver innovation to business in developing countries. However, there are barriers to an effective cooperation such as language, motivation, and business context. It seems that all barriers are coming from cultural differences and can be solved by building trust through long-term strategic partnership.

 

Keywords - innovation training, cultural barriers, international cooperation