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About Us

Vision

  • Develop Hong Kong as an international innovation and technology centre

Mission

  • Diversify economy
  • Create high-quality jobs
  • Improve quality of life
  • Contribute to meeting the needs of the country

Positioning

  • Enable technological breakthrough and explore new service and business models with innovative mindsets, and promote social innovation for the development of a city of innovation
  • Leverage Hong Kong's advantages to complement national development and integrate into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area under the 14th Five-Year Plan

Our Role

Through creating a vibrant ecosystem for the government, industry, academia and the research sector with excellent software and hardware support, we aim to develop Hong Kong into a knowledge-based economy and an innovation hub for technology and its application in the region. To this end, we will :

  • strengthen support for the innovation and technology sector;
  • facilitate the development of the information and communications technology industry;
  • strengthen cooperation among stakeholders and create greater synergy;
  • encourage private sector participation in R&D and commercialisation of R&D results;
  • coordinate inter-bureau policy efforts in R&D and technology matters;
  • strengthen collaboration with other economies to promote scientific and technology exchanges;
  • enhance support for nurturing of innovation and technology talents;
  • foster development of innovation and technology to promote development of “new industrialisation” and advanced manufacturing industry; and
  • facilitate development of smart city and digital economy.