The book is addressing common issues & problems of intellect, intellectual resources, building and promoting intellectual resources, the experience of Vietnam and of some powers-nations in the field of social life, serving the cause of national development. By the scientific arguments the authors focus on assessing Vietnam’s intellectual resources throughout history, analyzing the process of building and promoting intellectual resources, motivating factors, as well as factors that hinder the development of this resource, thereby suggesting policy solutions and recommendations for the development of Vietnamese intellectual resources, practically serving the cause of industrialization, modernization and country development in the 21st century.