The
Industry and University Collaboration Forum (IUCF) is one of ASTRI’s major
events held in Hong Kong Science Park. The theme of IUCF 2017 is “Connecting
the Dots for Re-industrialisation: The Greater Bay Area Landscape”. This event is focus on innovation and
technologies that can facilitate the next generation of industrial revolution
for this region. I took a photo during
registration.
In
the beginning the forum, Mr. MY Wong (Chairman of the Board, ASTRI) gave a
welcome speech. He said Industry 4.0
would bring a big change of the world.
Then he introduced different technology and innovation in ASTRI team and
recently got a HKIA 2016 award.
Mr.
Nicholas W. Yang (Secretary for Innovation and Technology, HKSARG) gave an
opening remark. He said Hong Kong aimed
to be Innovation and Technology (I&T) hub.
Then he briefed several I&T initiatives such as Re-industrialisation
through the project Data Technology Hub (DT Hub) and Advanced Manufacturing
Centre (AMC) developed by Science Park.
Moreover, he quoted the CE Address that doubles the R&D GDP from
~0.73% to ~1.5% through ITF.
Nevertheless, the internship sponsor will extend to post-doctorate
talent for R&D work in Hong Kong.
Group Photo and MOU Signing Ceremony
The
first keynote speaker was Prof. Lap-Chee Tsui (Founding President, The Academy
of Science of Hong Kong) and his topic entitled “The Role of Basic Research in
Building an Innovation and Technology Ecosystem”. He said Hong Kong’s basic research capability
was very strong that was one of advantages in the Greater Bay Area. However, the gap between upper stream and lower
stream was very large. We needed to
collaborate among region areas, and between Industry and University. He also said that young scholars not only
published research but also considered the IP to commercialization. We needed to think the balance. Finally, he pointed out one of big directions
in industries was to connect and develop with university and supply chain.
During
the tea break, I met Mr. Jimmy Kwok (Chairman, Federation of Hong Kong
Industries (FHKI)) and we took a photo for memory.
Ms.
Wu Ling (Director, Ministry of Science and Technology, Wide Band Gap
Semiconductor Program Office; President, China Advanced Semiconductor Industry
Innovation Alliance (CASA)) and her presentation title named “The 3rd
Generation Semiconductor Development: Status, Trends and Strategies”. Firstly,
she mentioned the China Four New Ideas: New Era, New Mission, New Thinking and
New Path for new model of society, economic and technology development.
Then
Ms. Ling introduced the first, second and third generation of semiconductor’s raw
material compositions. She said LED
developed much faster than you expected.
After
that Ms. Ling briefed to establish the health industry ecosystem consists of
increasing value of supply chain, matching the capital chain and enhancing the
service chain. All above was supported
national energy strategy.
Lastly,
Mr. Ling stated the development strategies and implementation path. She
concluded that the 3rd generation of semiconductor supported China
Strategy to establish industry technology plan.
The
last speaker was Prof. Li Ze-xiang (Professor, Department of Electronic &
Computer Engineering, HKUST) and his topic named “Innovation, Entrepreneurship
and Re-industrialization”. He said four
key items to be discussed and they were Innovation, Startup, Incubation and Re-industrialisation.
Firstly,
Prof. Li introduced HKUST Automation Technology Centre and those researches
based on professors’ interests and students’ interests that come out many
innovative ideas. Some success startups
were mentioned such as DJI founded since 2006.
Then
Prof. Li quoted Michael Moritz (Chairman, Sequoia Capital) that “The Phantom 2
Vision is the rough flying equivalent of the Apple II.” And he added the R&D system established
by “Student’s interests, perspective and passion”, “Course, Topic and Entrepreneurship
combination”, “Alumni partnership”, and “Student lead with Teacher’s coaching”.
After
that he told us how difficult the startup development and they had top 20 fail
reasons in which 7 points were highlighted. For hardware startup, he introduced
Dyson experience through the 5 steps were 1) Concept; 2) Design; 3) Prove; 4)
Scale and 5) Production.
For
Re-industrialisation, Prof. Li introduced the C2M model that was Customer and
Material、Machine、Manufacturing、Movement.
Panel
Discussion: (Left)
1.
Dr. Tian Hong (Chairman & CEO, SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd.)
2.
Dr. James Wong (COO & Group Executive Director, Truly International
Holdings Ltd.)
3.
Prof. Philip Chan (Deputy President and Provost, PolyU) (Moderator of
Panel)
4.
Mr. Peter Ng Hon-yu (VP, Technology, Enabling Technology Group, ASM
Technology Hong Kong Ltd.)
5.
Prof. Li Ze-xiang (Professor, Department of Electronic & Computer
Engineering, HKUST)
Dr.
Tian said that stop emphasizing Hong Kong as a financial centre and close to
China. We needed to emphasize Hong Kong
as Innovation hub to avoid people only used Hong Kong as a gateway and didn’t
hold R&D here.
Mr.
Peter Ng said they found difficult to hold talent because of housing problem
(Too expensive).
Prof.
Li commented to change mindset 1) Housing thinking and 2) public service thinking.
Finally,
Prof. Philip Chan said to reduce bureaucracy and to enable R&D between
industry and university.
Reference:
HKSTPC
- http://www.hkstp.org/
ASTRI - https://www.astri.org/
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