The 51st International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, which concluded in March 2026, spotlighted a cross-disciplinary lecturer at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for his pioneering work in establishing a digital identification framework for artworks and awarded the venture the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury.
Daniel Chun, lecturer and a veteran in know-how and the artwork world, introduced his improvements designed to bridge a elementary hole: The artwork world’s long-standing absence of a standardized identification system for artworks.
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As the rise of AI continues to muddy the waters — doubtlessly infringing on artists’ rights and income — Chun’s invention digitalizes provenance information, copyright safety, and valuation by leveraging blockchain know-how to construct a registry aligned with worldwide requirements.
The initiative, referred to as Articulator.ai, is positioning itself on the metropolis’s Northern Metropolis megaproject as a car for cross-boundary mental property transactions.
Articulator.ai is much from an remoted case within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the place vibrant interdisciplinary cross-boundary practices converge for progressive options. Some 1,900 promising startups had been based by HKUST members as of May 2026, marking a 5.6 p.c year-on-year enhance. This consists of 11 unicorns, with over 100 showcased at HKUST’s annual Unicorn Day on Tuesday.
Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong stated that the HKSAR authorities has earmarked over HK$3 billion ($382.8 million) to 73 initiatives below the Research, Academic and Industry Sectors One-plus program, with 19 initiatives originating from HKUST, underscoring the federal government’s recognition of native universities as pivotal to Hong Kong’s innovation and know-how ecosystem. This 12 months additionally marks the start of the National fifteenth Five-Year Plan (2026-30), which indicators clear and unwavering assist for Hong Kong’s I&T improvement, he added.
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Sun highlighted new developments just like the Hetao Hong Kong Park, the San Tin Technopole, and the Sandy Ridge Data Facility Cluster, which current unprecedented alternatives for collaboration amongst universities, enterprises, and startups, fostering connections throughout the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and past.
HKUST President Nancy Ip Yuk-yu famous the college’s longstanding dedication to fostering entrepreneurship by means of its Technology Transfer Center and the Entrepreneurship Center, which assist college and college students in turning analysis into sensible options.
Guo Jiaqi, a final-year Master of Science pupil from HKUST’s engineering faculty, stated that the college supplies complete assist for startups, together with mental property safety, workplace house, buyer outreach, and funding. The startup that she works for as a product supervisor focuses on optimizing medical administrative workflows utilizing AI.
The college additionally helps worldwide pupil entrepreneurs. Jungjin Park, a PhD candidate at HKUST, stated that his group, together with members from South Korea and Austria, developed an AI-integrated training platform for science. Inspired by a neighborhood faculty principal, their platform is now utilized in 18 main faculties in Hong Kong.
Unicorn Day attracted over 1,800 contributors, together with business companions and traders, and was attended by consuls-general and senior officers from international locations corresponding to Australia, Chile, France, Hungary, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Vietnam, and the United Arab Emirates.
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