Through the theoretical and empirical research on developed industrial nations and emerging economies, a recognition concerns the process of economic structural transformation, the core of which is the move of structure of industrial products. The author suggests the theory of industrial-product structure as an efficient measurement ruler of modification of economic structure. That is an explanation on the capability or incapability to take off in nations with growth. This theory is applied to the transition economy in Vietnam for the years between 1986 and 2012 to clarify the reason of...