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Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
The Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation was established in 2001 to offer one-stop infrastructural support services to technology-based companies and activities in a synergetic manner, ranging from nurturing start-ups. through incubation programmes, providing facilities and services in the Science Park for applied research and development activities, and creating and sustaining a design. cluster in the InnoCentre, to offering land and premises in industrial estates for production.
The 22-hectare Science Park is being developed in three phases. Completed in 2004 and 2008 respectively, Phase 1 and Phase 2, are over 90 per cent and close to 80 per cent occupied. Building 20 within Phase 2 is being developed with special green and sustainable features incorporated in the design. It is due for completion in the second quarter of 2011. Since its opening in 2004, the Hong Kong Science Park has offered local and overseas companies world class research and development facilities and robust supporting services. Under the clustering concept, it encourages collaboration and synergy among R&D companies in electronics, information technology and telecommunications, biotechnology, precision engineering, and a new fifth cluster of green technology to enhance their effectiveness.
The corporation operates three industrial estates in Tai Po, Yuen Long and Tseung Kwan O, with a total land area of 217 hectares. Developed land is provided at cost to companies with new or improved technology and processes that cannot operate in multi-storey buildings. The industrial estates have helped broaden the industry base and upgrade the technology level in Hong Kong. To meet future demands resulting from the re-structuring of the Hong Kong economy in recent years, studies are being conducted to revitalise and reposition the roles of the industrial estates.
The corporation nurtures technology-based and design start-up companies through its incubation programme by providing low-cost accommodation and management, and marketing, financial and technical assistance in their critical first years of operation. The corporation has also implemented a Small Technology Design/Enterprise Programme since 2006 to provide support services and office premises to graduates of these programmes to help them become full-fledged tenants. Over the years, the number of incubatees and graduates filing patents, trademarks and registered designs, and winning local and international technical and management awards, has steadily increased.
Hong Kong Productivity Council
The Hong Kong Productivity Council promotes productivity excellence among Hong Kong enterprises, providing integrated support across the value chain to innovative and growth-oriented enterprises. The council's focus is on the manufacturing sector, in particular Hong Kong's foundation industries, and related service activities in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region.
During the year, the council continued to drive productivity excellence through focused endeavours in four complementary areas, namely manufacturing technology,
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