Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry presents blueprint for developing Hong Kong as an I&T Hub at EMBA Frontier Forum

Professor Sun presented the Hong Kong Government's blueprint for developing Hong Kong as a technology and innovation hub. "The idea of building Hong Kong as a regional technology and innovation centre has been on the Government's agenda over the past two decades, having a solid infrastructure well laid down. It has now been elevated to a new height at the national level, as part of the 145 Economic and Social Development Plan of the Central Government," he said.

Emphasising the strategic priority of developing Hong Kong as a technology and innovation hub, he went on to elucidate the eight implementation strategies underpinned by four key development directions, namely enhancing the technology and innovation ecosystem, strengthening talent pools, fostering digital economic development, and leveraging national strategy with Hong Kong connecting between the mainland and the other part of the world.

"Hong Kong has been doing well in upstream development of technology and innovation with strong research support from local universities. Looking forward, universities need to strengthen their knowledge transfer effort and consider how to commercialize their research outputs."

The Forum closed with Professor Michael M Yang, Senior Vice-President (Innovation and Enterprise) of CityU facilitating a lively Q&A session. Participants actively exchanged ideas with Professor Sun on various issues, such as I&T financing, ecosystem certificates, cross-border data and IP transfer.
The College of Business is grateful to Professor Sun Dong, Professor Michael Yang, and all who attended and contributed to making the EMBA Frontier Forum a successful event. CB registers a note of thanks to Hong Kong Jiangsu Enterprise Association for co-organising the forum.