Comparison between 2020 and 2016 surveys on mentors and mentoring programs in Viet Nam.

1. Mentoring in Viet Nam: 2020
Tran Tri Dung; vebimo@gmail.com
Hanoi, 26 November 2020

2. As mentoring service becomes a key component of innovation and entrepreneurship
support programs - such as competitions, incubation and acceleration programs – the
number of mentoring programs keeps increasing.

3. Who are the mentors?
Investors,
11%
Managers,
35%
11%
Business
Champions,
8%
24%
11%
2016
6% 8%
Researchers &
Lecturers, 41%
16%
Professional
Consultants,
29%
-
2020
2020 in comparison to 2016:
+ More Business Champions
+ More Researchers and Lecturers
- Less Managers
30% of mentors started the first mentoring
sessions have not yet attended any training on
innovation, entrepreneurship, and mentoring
relationships

4. Motivations of Mentors
Financial
benefits, 6%
Payback to
community
40%
Access to
new ideas,
34%
Others
20%
2016
Financial
benefits, 8%
Payback to
community
42%
Access to
new ideas
29%
Investment
Opportunity
19%
Others
2%
2020
Payback to Community
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5. Challenges that mentors are facing
1. Lack of founders/mentees’
commitments to implementation
2. Lack of support from mentoring
programs
3. Founders/mentees want advice and
solutions beyond the mentors’
domain and expertise
4. Personality of founders/mentees is
unfit
42% of surveyed
entrepreneurship support
organizations need support
on capacity building for the
managers and coordinators
of mentoring programs

6. 1. Capacity building for managers
and coordinators of mentoring
programs
2. Guidance/Manual for
mentoring programs.
3. Database of mentors and
experts
No mentoring
service, 18.20%
No mentoring
service & planing
to introduce
mentoring
service, 18.20%
Separate
mentoring
sessions/events
only, 15.20%
Long-term
mentoring services
(> 3 months),
39.40%
Short-term mentoring
services (< 3 months),
9.10%
Mentoring Service in Entrepreneurship Support Organizations
Viet Nam, 2020
Entrepreneurship Support
Organizations need
All surveyed mentors and founders are
willing to have more than 3 months
mentoring relationships.

7. Thank you
very much
Developing a community of
mentors is not just an effort to
provide entrepreneurs and
startup founders with an
impactful service. It is to plant a
seed of the culture value of being
faithful to do the good deeds.
 159 respondents who are founders,
mentors, and managers of ESOs in Viet
Nam have contributed into 2020 Survey.
 There were 76 respondents in 2016
Survey