| The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region founded the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research
Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) in 2001 to capture the promises
of technological advances for Hong Kong through applied research.
Its missions are to perform high quality R&D for technology
transfer to industry, develop needed technical human resources and
act as a focal point that brings together industry and university
R&D assets.
As Hong Kong's applied technology research center focused on providing
world-class innovative technologies,
ASTRI's R&D activities focus on
four closely interrelated
Our goals, in the next phase
of ASTRI's development, will be to build a totally customer-focused
R&D organization that not only conducts world-class research,
but also excels in bringing real industrial impact, continuously
and in volume.
technological domains - IC Designs, Communications Technologies,
Enterprise & Consumer Electronics, and Material & Packaging
Technologies. In the past few years, ASTRI has built a team of excellent
researchers who are already conducting world-class research. Our
goals, in the next phase of ASTRI's development, will be to build
a totally customer-focused R&D organization that not only conducts
world-class research, but also excels in bringing real industrial
impact, continuously and in volume. Our objectives will be nothing
short of establishing ASTRI as one of the most influential R&D
forces in the entire Greater China Region, and a truly strategic
asset that would enable Hong Kong to capture values from competitive
technologies for years to come.
In April 2006, the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) launched
the Hong Kong R&D Centre Initiative with the objective to promote
applied R&D and facilitate technology transfer and commercialization
under a new strategic framework for innovation and technology development.
Sharing the same missions, ASTRI was designated as the Hong Kong
R&D Centre for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT
R&D Centre) to perform market leading-edge R&D and enhance
Hong Kong's technological competitiveness on a continuous basis.
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