Finding Partners
Due diligence: speak to someone who worked with them and it did not go well
References supplied by the partner tell you they have satisfied someone. That was never in doubt.
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How to identify and approach Vietnamese research groups, and what a realistic first contact looks like.
Finding Partners
Finding Partners
Regional networks: the fastest route to a Vietnamese partner often runs through a third country
Regional bodies and multi-country consortia introduce partners with the vetting already done.
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Where the strengths are: follow sustained output in one narrow area, not institutional reputation
Research strength in any country clusters around specific groups, not around whole institutions.
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Assessing capacity: ask what a bad week looks like, not what the facility can do
Every facility can describe its best-case throughput. What matters for planning is the ordinary case.
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Finding a Vietnamese partner: the person listed as director is rarely the person doing the work
Institutional websites show hierarchy. They rarely show who actually runs the research.
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