Thailand's Deputy PM Yotchanan Vorasoontaweekul identifies financial literacy as a critical gap in the country's deep tech and startup ecosystem. While Thailand excels in research and education, the missing link is Entrepreneurial Finance education—bridging research mindset to commercialization. He advocates a three-tier Financial Literacy approach (personal finance, entrepreneurial finance, and scaling knowledge) to enable researchers and academics to become job creators rather than job seekers, with universities needing to support entrepreneurship through VC/angel funding pipelines rather than passive licensing models.