Strategic Focus
To enhance the competitiveness of Hong Kong Marine Science and Technology, as well as Marine Economy through fostering sustainable development and knowledge transfer.
Five summit series cover five key aspects of marine field, including blue marine economy, applied fundamental research, incubation and commercialization, frontier research, and advanced industrial technology.
Corresponding to summit series, five GBA outreach trips offer the chance to visit advanced models at the representative GBA marine sectors, facilitating the collaboration and the development of marine industry and economy in Hong Kong.
After summit series and GBA trips, a sharing workshop can gather interested parties together to share their insight and experience, and brainstorm the potential collaboration.
Social Impacts
Hong Kong is a coastal city and maritime center. As such, many marine scientists and talents gather here to explore the huge potential of marine science and technology. It is in high demand to have a platform to link academia and industry to facilitate knowledge transfer in addition to the commercialization of the latest research outputs.
To this end, this project is launched to integrate academia and industry and facilitate innovation and technology in Hong Kong by a series of activities, including five Marine Science and Economy Summits, five GBA outreach visits and one sharing workshop. Renowned scholars and industry representatives from local and overseas universities and enterprises will be invited to share their experience and insights at the summit, showcasing cutting edge technology, identifying potential collaborative opportunities, fostering knowledge transfer, and enhancing societal impact. The participants will visit enterprises and manufacturing sites through the GBA outreach activities, exchanging ideas with potential partners and gaining new insights from practical experience. A comprehensive review and discussion on Industry-University-Research Cooperation in a sharing workshop will promote inter-disciplinary collaboration.
Overall, this project will boost the knowledge transfer and technology commercialization of the industry-research collaborative platform, and support young talents to pursue their career and entrepreneurship, eventually fostering a marine economy in the GBA.
Participants’ Benefits
A series of Marine Economy Summits and GBA Outreach Trips, as well as a Sharing Workshop are comprehensive collection of marine events, offering precious opportunities for all participants. The benefits include but are not limited to:
- Clearly understand guidelines of the government policies and predication of initiatives from the comprehensive dialog from government policy makers;
- Get the latest update about research breakthrough, cutting edge technologies, the future hotspots through listening presentations by experts from academia;
- Catch up the market demands and new development directions from the sharing by Industry practitioners and stakeholders;
- Inspire the downstream translation research and commercialization through real case studies regarding knowledge transfer;
- Gain firsthand experience and new ideas by visiting the representative organizations or companies at GBA;
- Establish extensive collaboration networks by mingling with diversified participants in the events.
Project Team
Project Coordinator
Prof. Pei-Yuan QIAN
Operation Team
| Ms. Emma ZHOU | Mr. Edmond CHEUNG | Dr. Rong NI |