24 May 2013

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, is an optimist about economic growth in the coming decades, rejecting "depressing" views about a slowdown and putting his faith in...

4:39AM
19 May 2013

The HUB (www.the-hub.net) is an association of co-working spaces that currently number 38 globally, including three in Asia - Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo - with another 17 cities approved to open...

3:55AM
4 May 2013

More than ever, innovation is key to achieving sustainable competitive advantage and growth, both for companies and countries. Together, Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan have made great...

4:56AM
19 Apr 2013

How many of us get more than 24 hours from our smartphone before it runs out of juice? The biggest barrier to mobile computing has been short battery life. The problem with power is portability....

10:55AM
18 Apr 2013

China's companies are taking to the world in leaps and bounds. But despite firms extending their reach with purchases and products, global Chinese brand recognition remains low. Part of that has...

3:18AM
7 Feb 2013

The lives of the world's poorest people have improved more rapidly in the past 15 years than ever before, and I am optimistic that we will do even better in the next 15 years. After all, human...

2:41AM

If, just half a decade ago, you had asked leading senior executives in the United States, Western Europe or Japan how they intended to cope with the rise of China, you would have got a familiar...

4:16AM

Hong Kong's investment in scientific research lags other developed economies in the region as well as the mainland partly because of a lack of contributions from industry, according to the former...

5:44AM

Thank you to the reader who drew my attention to reports last month that China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest filer of patent applications.

4:01AM

According to the "World Intellectual Property Indicators 2012" released by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) this month, China tops the world (in 2011, the most recent year for...

4:02AM

It has been 40 years since the last astronauts left the moon. That anniversary, which passed last week, has put some prominent technologists in a funk.

2:33AM

Home-grown innovation, rather than slavish copying of Western models, is needed to ensure the success of economic reforms on the mainland, delegates at an economic summit were told yesterday.

5:31AM

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