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Hong Kong innovatorsi

The entrepreneurs and companies working to change the Hong Kong technology and business environment with innovative products and strategies.

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  • China’s ATLATL Innovation Centre and California-headquartered Founder Institute are setting up offices in Hong Kong to cultivate start-ups locally
  • Both companies will utilise a 300-hectare space provided by the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park
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StartmeupHK, which will mark its first full return to physical events since the Covid-19 pandemic, is seen as a bellwether for sentiment in the Hong Kong tech industry.

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong says elite few in third round of China Manned Space Agency recruitment comprise both men and women.

Hungarian-American biochemist Professor Katalin Kariko hopes mRNA science can be used for wound-healing and to prevent or treat other conditions, even cancer.

The DHL-SCMP Hong Kong Business Awards, held without interruption since 1990, will honour outstanding achievements in seven categories this year, not including a discretionary Lifetime Achievement award.

Joint study by University of Science and Technology, Chinese University shows SARS-CoV-2 virus can significantly disrupt development of placenta in pregnant women.

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The venture -the largest life sciences transaction in Asia this year – would also spearhead the development of a life science ecosystem in Hong Kong, and help the city’s position as a biotech hub.

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Hong Kong’s science and technology park operator aims to grow from about 1,200 to 6,000 start-ups in a decade, dispelling the belief that Hong Kong is a desert for tech entrepreneurship.