ASTRI Innovation Runway Fellows Take The First Step To Startup Business

On 10 Nov, ASTRI Innovation Runway Program Fellows attended the first training workshop about cloud-computing platform which they can use for starting up their business. Before the start of the training, Dr. Frank Tong, Chief Executive Officer of ASTRI and the programme mentors extended a warm welcome to the fellows. Consultation sessions were arranged for the fellows to seek advice from the mentors through discussion and prototype demonstration. This training workshop was conducted by Microsoft Hong Kong.

Dr. Frank Tong and mentors welcome the fellows

Fellows attend the cloud-base computing platform workshop

Team CheckWave meets with their mentor

Team Virtual Reality demonstrates the prototype to their mentor

Team Locavel exchanges ideas with mentor

Team eScooter has discussion with mentor

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Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

Its technological strengths and capabilities enable AI powered, cross disciplinary ICT and advanced materials solutions across Smart City, FinTech, Digital Health and Life Sciences, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Advanced Electronics, New Energy and Energy Storage, and Green and ESG Technologies.

Over the years, ASTRI has cultivated a strong pool of I&T talent and earned numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations and contributions to industry and the community. Following the merger with NAMI, ASTRI’s cumulative global patent portfolio has grown to over 1,500, with more than 2,200 technologies successfully transferred to industry.

With enhanced scale and capabilities, ASTRI is uniquely positioned to elevate Hong Kong’s innovation capacity, accelerate technology commercialisation, and drive societal and economic progress through world class applied research.

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