{"id":33886,"date":"2025-05-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=33886"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:47:14","slug":"6-strategic-directions-to-position-nxpo-as-thailands-strategic-intelligence-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/33886\/","title":{"rendered":"6 strategic directions to position NXPO as Thailand\u2019s Strategic Intelligence Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-1-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-1-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-1-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-1-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-1-1.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As Thailand\u2019s policy agency for higher education, science, research, and innovation, NXPO aspires to become an academically independent Strategic Intelligence Unit \u2014 playing a pivotal role in supporting evidence-based government policy decisions. NXPO President Dr. Surachai Sathitkunarat has outlined six strategic directions to advance this vision:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Leveraging higher education, science, research, and innovation to drive Thailand out of the middle-income trap and toward developed country status by promoting an innovation-driven economy and strengthening SMEs as key engines of sustainable economic growth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advancing Thailand\u2019s higher education, science, research, and innovation system to achieve international recognition while ensuring its development reflects the country\u2019s unique context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supporting the higher education system through academic freedom and institutional autonomy while fostering mechanisms to produce high-quality graduates aligned with national priorities and labor market demands. This includes both degree and non-degree programs under the Higher Education Sandbox initiative, with active private sector participation in curriculum design.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strengthening research and infrastructure development by promoting knowledge creation across all academic disciplines, emphasizing both basic and applied research as essential pillars of the national research system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supporting the development of research and innovation by facilitating the development and transfer of technologies across all stages of the technology cycle &#8211; Research, Development, Demonstration, Deployment, and Diffusion (RDDD&amp;D).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhancing the governance and management of Thailand\u2019s science, research, and innovation system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Thailand\u2019s policy agency for higher education, scien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2125,2077,2276],"class_list":["post-33886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-higher-education-sandbox-en","tag-sme-en","tag-strategic-intelligence-unit-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-strategic-directions-to-position-NXPO-as-Thailands-Strategic-Intelligence-Unit-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33889,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886\/revisions\/33889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}