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The HKU Techno-Entrepreneurship Academy Unveiled in Qianhai
HKU and the Qianhai Authority held an unveiling ceremony for the HKU Techno-Entrepreneurship Academy in Shenzhen Qianhai on 8 May 2024. The Academy aims to create a benchmark demonstration project for Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation in Qianhai, build a platform for empowering innovation and entrepreneurship among young people in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, and promote extensive exchanges, comprehensive communication, and deep integration among young people in the region.
Professor Max Shen, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of HKU, said in his speech that the establishment of the HKU Techno-Entrepreneurship Academy aims to stimulate the innovation potential of young people, cultivate innovative thinking and practical abilities, and create an important space and platform for HKU and Hong Kong youth in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) innovation and entrepreneurship and technology transformation. By providing high-quality resources and support, the young innovators and entrepreneurs will grow and develop here, becoming an important driving force for promoting technological innovation and social development, and further enhancing Qianhai’s attractiveness and competitiveness in the GBA, becoming a well-known region for global technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Academy, located in the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub (E-Hub), is expected to be ready for occupancy by early July 2024. It will rely on HKU to establish an innovation and entrepreneurship base centred around education and practice, providing relevant services for young technology talent and scientists. Resident projects will focus on areas such as artificial intelligence, life and health, new energy, and new materials, creating differentiated and distinctive science and technology training programmes, and striving to become a new benchmark for the integration and development of innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA.
(This article is adapted from https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/27311.html)