For a bunch of 12 younger entrepreneurs from Germany, the Greater Bay Area (GBA) presents distinctive alternatives to dramatically speed up their start-up journey.
With the assist of Hong Kong’s Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Chris Sun, the entrepreneurs have been a part of a delegation that visited the GBA in September, organised in collaboration with Hong Kong Talent Engage (HKTE), an workplace beneath the federal government’s Labour and Welfare Bureau designed to appeal to worldwide professionals and assist business growth in “eight centres”, together with innovation and expertise.
All 12 younger abilities have been winners of a pitching competitors – with almost 600 entrants in fields starting from synthetic intelligence and deep tech to local weather and sustainability, and well being and biotechnology – co-organised by HKTE and Germany’s Young Founders Network (YFN), an affiliation nurturing promising start-ups.
The subject journey included conferences with native start-up founders, visits to the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in addition to Qianhai in Shenzhen, a fast-developing commerce and innovation hub with robust monetary and technological ties to Hong Kong.
This yr, Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou topped the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Global Innovation Index, a rating of the world’s most revolutionary hubs. The cluster’s achievement highlights its function in bringing collectively a various array of researchers, traders and entrepreneurs. Since their go to, a number of of the start-ups are exploring methods to develop their companies in the GBA, drawn by the convergence of expertise and sources, together with Hong Kong’s established strengths in finance and logistics, coupled with robust authorities assist for its expertise infrastructure.