Supporting innovation and expertise has at all times been a key precedence for the federal government, with universities serving not solely as main companions but additionally because the cornerstone of Hong Kong’s I&T ecosystem, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong stated.
Speaking on the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s “Unicorn Day,” Sun stated Hong Kong is coming into a golden age of I&T improvement.
He stated the federal government is actively constructing a brand new engine to drive the town’s high-quality improvement by specializing in scientific analysis and innovation in key areas, whereas additionally selling the event of industrial purposes.
HKUST president Nancy Ip Yuk-yu stated the college is dedicated to serving to college students and college understand their entrepreneurial ambitions and rework analysis outcomes into sensible options.
Ip stated HKUST’s deliberate medical college will combine life sciences with frontier applied sciences, with the goal of nurturing a brand new technology of interdisciplinary medical expertise.
She additionally highlighted the college’s involvement in nationwide scientific tasks, together with the Chang’e-8 mission and the Tiangong house station.
HKUST can also be advancing its first aerospace expertise undertaking with commercialization potential underneath the federal government’s RAISe+ Scheme.
The occasion drew greater than 1,000 individuals, together with college students, college members, alumni, worldwide and native political representatives, business professionals, buyers and researchers.