PharmCare’s software helps patients and pharmacies have medication ready when needed

Changing the way pharmacies manage medications

Hong Kong acts as a superconnector linking businesses with opportunities

Major Thai development project seeks Asia investment

More than 60,000 buyers attended Electronics Fair and electronicAsia

Electronics expos reflect a positive industry outlook

Hong Kong fintech firm wants to diversify revenue and scale up

WeLab looks to ASEAN to launch more digital banks

HKTDC supports Hong Kong enterprise to attain ESG credentials as part of Greater Bay Area expansion

Helping SMEs in their sustainability journey

AI, microelectronics facilities will strengthen R&D, advanced manufacturing

High-tech infrastructure projects set to boost innovation in Hong Kong

Start-up’s AI solution helps prevent malfunctions and avoid inefficiencies

AI system predicts failure in critical facilities and infrastructure

electronicAsia and the Hong Kong Electronics Fair will be held from 13 to 16 October, featuring products from a wide range of areas, including home technology, digital entertainment, telecommunications, robotics and audio-visual products.

Two major exhibitions, bringing together industry buyers and suppliers from around the world, will showcase Hong Kong’s potential to become an international innovation and technology centre.

Two must-attend electronics industry events to return in October

The inaugural Hong Kong Shopping Festival, organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and supported by the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, will be held from 1 to 31 August across e-commerce platforms in Mainland China.

Shopping festival opens up US$2 trillion digital market for Hong Kong’s online retailers.

Fast-track to mainland for SMEs

As e-commerce matures, many transport-focused logistics companies find freight-management a pain point, given the large number of clients.

HKTDC helps a smart logistics platform from Hong Kong to set up in Bangkok.

Smooth landing in Thailand

London and Hong Kong are both globally renowned technology hubs, with leading universities, strong financial sectors and large, diverse talent pools creating vibrant start-up ecosystems.

HKTDC boosts connections between technology hubs by bringing Hong Kong start-ups to Tech Week in the UK.

Entrepreneurs head to London

The 10 Start-up Express winners, an entrepreneurship development programme organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), represented diverse sectors, ranging from healthtech and greentech to edutech and mechanical engineering.

10 winners were selected as part of the 2024 cohort of the HKTDC’s Start-up Express programme.

Strong showing by healthtech, greentech start-ups

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Nanjing Hanwei Public Health Research Institute have developed an AI early warning platform to more effectively prevent and treat respiratory infectious diseases.

Hong Kong and Nanjing researchers cooperate to develop early warning platform for respiratory diseases.

AI raises disease alert

The application of augmented reality (AR) is becoming increasingly widespread. Commonly used in games and education in the early years, it has expanded to the medical field.

Hong Kong start-up specialising in AR surgical assistance software enhances surgical precision.

AR in the operating room

Generative AI is drawing intense attention in the licensing industry, as it could cost-effectively generate vast amounts of IP content, but comes with a range of legal, privacy and security problems.

A licensing lawyer points out that key jurisdictions deny copyright to machine-generated content.

AI presents IP challenge

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has been at the forefront of addressing myopia, an eye disorder that affects one-third of the global population, with a novel non-invasive solution to control the development of myopia in children.

PolyU teams up with leading German lens maker ZEISS to accelerate market penetration of patented myopia control technology.

Farsighted deal to counter myopia

Start-ups are essential in Hong Kong’s drive towards becoming a global innovation and technology leader, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is committed to nurturing start-ups, helping them upgrade and transform and explore business opportunities.

The HKTDC’s Start-up Express mentorship programme nurtures an ecosystem of innovators.

Entrepreneurs critical in Hong Kong’s I&T drive

Generating bespoke bone components – anything from a skull plate to part of a load-bearing arm bone – on a 3D printer might seem far-fetched, but that is just what Hong Kong biomaterials pioneer NOVUS Life Sciences does.

A Hong Kong biotech firm established solid overseas connections through HKTDC’s pavilion at a leading German fair.

Bone-builder expands abroad

Hong Kong is fast developing into an international I&T hub, one of the eight centres that China’s Five-Year Plan outlines for the city, offering many arising opportunities via its platform.

City’s hub status enhanced, as the region moves up the value chain.

Innovation takes Hong Kong forward

When asked about the three top factors for property buyers, an estate agent will say “location, location, location” and for investors in Hong Kong as well as the broader Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area “location” is a broad term.

GBA buyers encounter many obstacles in their search for real estate across the globe and a Hong Kong fintech is easing these pain points.

Giving property investors wings

Innovation and technology are important engines for economic and enterprise development.

Sound IP protection gives confidence to an air-purifier inventor to invest in technology enhancement.

IP essential tool for air purification technology

The pandemic accelerated medical technology development across the world and especially in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Firms from Jiangsu and Zhejiang can revolutionise diagnostics through enhanced imaging of bodies and minds.

Mainland healthtech start-ups shine

The opening of Hong Kong’s first hydrogen fuelling station and debut of a hydrogen-powered public bus in the city  took place at this year’s Asian Logistics, Maritime and Aviation Conference (ALMAC), a point picked up by several delegates.

This year’s ALMAC coincided with the launch of Hong Kong’s first hydrogen fuelling station.

Logistics firms seek to green fuel tanks

Hong Kong has a thriving start-up ecosystem with entrepreneurs innovating in a wide spectrum of sectors, including medicine, F&B and biotechnology.

InnoClub celebrates cutting-edge entrepreneurs in healthcare, biotech and F&B.

Hong Kong entrepreneurial spirit rewarded

Artificial intelligence is changing the world in the 21st century just as profoundly as steam engines did in the 19th century and motor vehicles in the 20th.

World-class universities have made the city a leading global centre in machine learning and application, according to a leading authority in the field.

AI works wonders in Hong Kong

In the 1970s, Hong Kong was a manufacturing powerhouse churning out everything from toy trains to microchips. Over the 1980s and 90s, the factories migrated north into Mainland China.

Programmes lead the way to bring ‘Made in Hong Kong’ back into the sunshine.

Smart technology revives industry

Libpet Tech’s cutting-edge all-terrain invention can improve quality of life

Expanding mobility for wheelchair users

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