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13.

So much for industrial development services.

In providing infrastructural support for our manufacturing

industries the Government seeks to ensure that an adequate

supply of resources is made available, and these include

trained manpower, water, energy, and industrial land and

capital. As a great deal has already been said during previous

debates on industrial policy about what the government has

done in providing infrastructural support (including plans

for creating a third university), I shall confine myself

to the four main suggestions that have emerged from the

recent deliberations of the Industry Development Board.

14.

First, in relation to, industrial accommodation

there appears to be a case for setting up a technology centre

in Hong Kong. There are numerous examples of such centres

or industrial science parks worldwide and their common theme

is to promote the application of emerging technologies.

These technology centres typically provide clean, dust-free,

noise-free and vibration-free accommodation for companies

engaged in product development and prototype production

and they depend for its incubator effect on close physical

proximity to centres of academic excellence.

Accordingly,

the Administration is now considering whether there is sufficient

demand in Hong Kong to establish such a centre, possibly

in the first instance, in conjunction with the Hong Kong

Productivity council.

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