scholarly journals Barriers to Bringing Design Function into Technology Start-Ups: A Survey on the Incubation Programme of Hong Kong Science Park

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 807-828
Author(s):  
Sylvia Xihui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Design Function ◽  
Start Ups

Innovative Management of Spanish Academic Science Parks

2016 ◽  
pp. 419-444
Author(s):  
Monica Cerdan-Chiscano ◽  
Ana Isabel Jimenez-Zarco ◽  
Joan Torrent-Sellens
Keyword(s):  
Synergistic Effect ◽  
Incubation Period ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Science Parks ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Innovative Management ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Level Of Risk

The correct management of academic science parks is strategic for universities, as well as has synergistic effect for companies there in installed. Park managers choose who the tenants for the parks are, but also they take other strategic decisions relative to: (a) academic spin-offs creation, (b) investment in technology-based companies, o (c) consolidation the start-ups that have finished their incubation period. Managers have tools to increase quality decisions and reduce the level of risk associated. However, the park' nature and characteristics are unique, thus tools must be flexible, and able to adapt to the changing reality of the companies, park and environment. Based on the previous ideas, the present chapter proposes to design and test a management tool for science parks based on organizations and entrepreneur's characteristics. Results obtained show that the tool is very useful, due that its simplicity, flexibility and adaptability for be used in any Science Park.

Design incubatees' perspectives and experiences in Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-496
Author(s):  
Tiffany W.M. FONG
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Business Incubation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
The Government ◽  
Start Ups

PurposeThis paper discusses the services and support from one of the government design-based business incubators in Hong Kong. The characteristics of a design business incubator are explained, and a multiple-case study indicates the perspectives of incubatees from different design disciplines after their graduation from the incubation programme.Design/methodology/approachThe research under discussion in this paper was based on eight design incubatees in different design disciplines within two years of incubation period, all of whom had participated in one of the government-funded business incubation programmes for designers in Hong Kong. The programme is unique because there are no other government-based incubation programmes for designers in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect feedback from incubatees in areas ranging from terms of service to support of the incubation programme.FindingsThe services of training, mentorship and finance were found to be the most important to design start-ups. Financial support and flexible funding allocation were another important issue for design incubatees, but training in these subject areas was not included in the incubation programme. However, it was confirmed that funding provided may have helped a number of the incubatees in developing their start-up businesses as a result of the reduced financial burden and office allocation.Research limitations/implicationsThe research focused on one incubation programme because of the lack of incubation programmes for designers in Hong Kong, therefore future research which compares different types of business incubation programmes is suggested.Practical implicationsThe outcomes of the research not only identified the possible areas of development and improvement of business incubation in entrepreneurship but they will also be useful for the government, universities, institutions, designers, policy makers, entrepreneurs and practitioners. These, in addition to industry stakeholders who want to evaluate their entrepreneurship programmes and develop their plans for potential development in incubation- or entrepreneurial-related programmes or training, especially in the area of design, will find the results useful.

Uncertainty clouds US IPO ebullience going into 2022

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Initial Public Offering ◽  
The United States ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chinese Companies ◽  
Public Offering ◽  
Start Ups

Significance The company's initial public offering (IPO) is one of three this week expected to raise upwards of USD500mn each, adding to what is already set to be a record-breaking year for IPOs in the United States despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies under pressure from Beijing and Washington. Impacts Hong Kong will be the main beneficiary of Chinese companies' forced IPO withdrawal from US markets. Venture capitalists' being cash-rich should mean a steady stream of start-ups that will eventually seek to become public companies. Investors will press SPAC sponsors to risk more of their own capital.

FEATURES

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Science Park

Promoting Biotechnology in Hong Kong. Achieving the Extreme Power for Common Drugs. Funding Biotechnology Ventures. Hong Kong Science Park - Supporting Biotechnology Development in Hong Kong.

EYE ON CHINA

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (08) ◽  
pp. 4-15
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Going Private ◽  
Online Sales ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
World Class ◽  
Mixed Species Flocks ◽  
China Mainland

Singapore-Based AAMG To Lead Project Management to Establish Zhuhai-Singapore Life Science Park which will offer World-Class Health & Medical Services in Southern China Boston Therapeutics’ Hong Kong Affiliate Advance Pharmaceutical’s BTI-320 Clinical Trial Reaches Mid-Point by Enrolling 30 Patients at the Chinese University of Hong Kong China Green Agriculture’s Online Sales Platform Begins Operations Mixed-species Flocks Important for Biodiversity Conservation in Tropics LICP Designs Hydrogels with Extraordinary Mechanical Properties and Good Self-recovery AstraZeneca and Ironwood Report Positive Top-Line Data from Phase III IBS-C Trial Designed to Support Linaclotide Approval in China GE to Build Wind Education Centre in China Chinese Scientists Edit Genes to Produce Artificial Sperm Capable of Creating “army of half-cloned mice” Brain ‘switch’ can Turn off Drug Addiction, Say Shanghai Scientists Mindray Medical Completes Acquisition of Wuhan Dragonbio China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd. Announces Formation of Special Committee to Consider “Going Private” Proposal BioNano Genomics Announces Addition of Gene Company as China Mainland and HK/Macau Distributor Novel Imaging Technology REFI takes Clinicians closer to detecting Stage 0 Tumour Lesions

Third sector housing in 21st-century Hong Kong: opportunities and challenges1

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Betty Yung ◽  
Alex Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Housing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Housing Needs ◽  
Start Ups

Hong Kong has a large public housing sector that shows strong resilience. Given the approximate half‐half public‐private housing divide in Hong Kong, officials, housing advocates and the general public envisage housing provision, problems and remedies within the ‘rigid’ framework of private and public housing. Social innovation examples of third sector housing as start-ups in ‘social housing’ have emerged in the early 21st century in Hong Kong, thereby forming a ‘new’ model in housing delivery amidst the public‐private binary housing market. This study focuses on the gap filled by third sector housing in Hong Kong through serving as a complement to the private and public housing sectors in meeting unsatisfied general housing needs and as a supplement to both sectors in catering for neglected specialist housing needs. The exact future trajectory of third sector housing development will highly depend on the synergy of different stakeholders in public, private and third sectors as well as the common citizens in its nurturance.

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