--- title: "Viettel and VNPT will report R&D spending near 3% of revenue within two years, though most of the increase will come from relabelling existing technology costs rather than genuine new research." description: "Vietnam is drafting rules letting its biggest tech firms claim official \"advanced economy\" status if they meet certain criteria, including spending 3% of revenue on R&D, but Viettel and VNPT currently" url: "https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/74/viettel-and-vnpt-will-report-r-d-spending-near-3-of-revenue-within-two-years-tho" markdown: "https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/74/viettel-and-vnpt-will-report-r-d-spending-near-3-of-revenue-within-two-years-tho.md" index: "https://bilby.ai/llms.txt" --- > For agents: Bilby answers questions about what governments do, from documents collected at source and checked by research analysts. To ask Bilby yourself, connect to its MCP server at https://pulse.bilby.ai/mcp (setup: https://docs.bilby.ai/developers/mcp-server). Every page on this site is also markdown: add .md to its address, or send Accept: text/markdown. https://bilby.ai/llms.txt lists them all. # Viettel and VNPT will report R&D spending near 3% of revenue within two years, though most of the increase will come from relabelling existing technology costs rather than genuine new research. - **Made:** 1 Sep 2026 - **By:** Marco Law - **Market:** Vietnam - **Outcome:** Unresolved Vietnam is drafting rules letting its biggest tech firms claim official "advanced economy" status if they meet certain criteria, including spending 3% of revenue on R&D, but Viettel and VNPT currently spend only around 1%. With no strict rule separating true research from routine network upgrades or software procurement, reclassifying existing spending as R&D is the cheaper route to the threshold. [Ask Bilby about this prediction](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Viettel%20and%20VNPT%20will%20report%20R%26D%20spending%20near%203%25%20of%20revenue%20within%20two%20years%2C%20though%20most%20of%20the%20increase%20will%20come%20from%20relabelling%20existing%20technology%20costs%20rather%20than%20genuine%20new%20research.) ## Ask Bilby about it Carry the prediction into a question: what has changed since, who decides, and who is exposed. - [What has changed since it was made?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=What%20has%20changed%20since%20Bilby%20predicted%20this%3F%20Viettel%20and%20VNPT%20will%20report%20R%26D%20spending%20near%203%25%20of%20revenue%20within%20two%20years%2C%20though%20most%20of%20the%20increase%20will%20come%20from%20relabelling%20existing%20technology%20costs%20rather%20than%20genuine%20new%20research.) - [Who decides whether it happens?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Who%20decides%20whether%20this%20happens%3F%20Viettel%20and%20VNPT%20will%20report%20R%26D%20spending%20near%203%25%20of%20revenue%20within%20two%20years%2C%20though%20most%20of%20the%20increase%20will%20come%20from%20relabelling%20existing%20technology%20costs%20rather%20than%20genuine%20new%20research.) - [Who gains and who loses if it does?](https://pulse.bilby.ai/?prompt=Who%20gains%20and%20who%20loses%20if%20this%20happens%3F%20Viettel%20and%20VNPT%20will%20report%20R%26D%20spending%20near%203%25%20of%20revenue%20within%20two%20years%2C%20though%20most%20of%20the%20increase%20will%20come%20from%20relabelling%20existing%20technology%20costs%20rather%20than%20genuine%20new%20research.) ## More from Vietnam 8 predictions on Vietnam so far, newest first. - 29 Oct 2026 · [Vietnam’s e-commerce crackdown will favour Shopee over TikTok.](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/196/vietnam-s-e-commerce-crackdown-will-favour-shopee-over-tiktok) · Unresolved - 21 Oct 2026 · [EVN's Quảng Trạch II power plant will start operating at least six months later than its planned April 2030 opening, putting Vietcombank into financial risk.](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/177/evn-s-quang-trach-ii-power-plant-will-start-operating-at-least-six-months-later-) · Unresolved - 22 Sep 2026 · [Japanese semiconductor firms will gain an expansion advantage in Vietnam over rival foreign manufacturers through 2028.](https://bilby.ai/predictions/p/116/japanese-semiconductor-firms-will-gain-an-expansion-advantage-in-vietnam-over-ri) · Unresolved [All 8 from Vietnam](https://bilby.ai/predictions/log?tag=vietnam) · Marked true or false when each resolves ## See what we’re seeing next. New predictions in the Asia Daily Take, free every weekday, and in Bilby whenever you have a question. [Get the Asia Daily Take](https://bilby.ai/asia#asia-daily-take) · [Try Bilby](https://pulse.bilby.ai/sign-up)