A combination of grace and power｜Hong Kong's innovation and technology troika must undergo major reforms

Hong Kong's innovation and technology troika: Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, Cyberport, and Productivity Council, these platforms directly related to Hong Kong's innovation and technology are still stuck in the model of the 1990s.

What is the pattern of the nineties?

It is just renting out the space and holding some events, but there is no result, just let it flow, just like a government-run real estate project.

Both the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park and Cyberport are short-term three-year leases. It seems that there are some themes, but what are the results of the themes?

not at all.

For example, Cyberport said they are doing digital entertainment, but what digital entertainment-related companies have really developed?

Is the post-production company of the movie "Tomorrow's War" in Cyberport?

We can't help but wonder: why are Hong Kong film post-production companies based not in Cyberport but elsewhere.

In fact, the current concentration of digital entertainment post-production companies is Kwun Tong, not Cyberport.

It is even more bizarre that the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park wants to kick out a recycling factory that needs long-term support after the contract expires.

The government makes money from real estate to subsidize another government's real estate projects. All companies in the park have to review it every three years, just like the movie "Infernal Affairs", but instead of "three years and three years", it is three years. Then kick you.

A normal science and technology park must have a plan and blueprint. Does the science and technology park tell you what its main positioning is?

In fact, environmental protection and sustainable development are related, and garbage recycling is a theme project.

From kitchen waste, plastic to paper, all kinds of garbage can be recycled and processed by technological methods. If garbage recycling is done well, there will be an economic production capacity of over 10 billion.

Technology parks are valuable if they can improve lives.

If it is just a fake, empty talk, and a lot of money from the government to build some empty buildings, it is often exchanged and it is just based on quantity.

Recently I heard that they are going to turn the current 1,000 venture capital companies into 6,000, so what are these 6,000?

What is their quality?

What is their position?

Does the Science and Technology Park have a clear explanation and introduction?

Successful I&T in Shenzhen, not Hong Kong

The operation of the Science and Technology Park seems to be dominated by the responsible property management department. Bidding is carried out according to the bidding model set by the administrative officer. It must be fair and transparent. In the end, the most unfair thing is those companies and investors who really invest their energy and money. .

Such a result can only occur when the science and technology park is not dominated by scientific and technological talents, but by administrative personnel.

Because a science and technology park dominated by professionals is bound to make some achievements.

The real technology is in Shenzhen.

If the science park was successful, many technology companies would have been stationed in Hong Kong long ago, but it seems that there are not. Many really successful innovation and technology companies are based in Shenzhen instead of Hong Kong.

You have to ask why Xiaomi does not set up a research department in Hong Kong?

Because Hong Kong only has money, no talent, and no supporting policies.

The government keeps raising these three platforms with money, but what is the role of these three platforms?

Chief Executive Li Jiachao said KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), and their KPIs are just KPIs on the document, but I can't see any indicators.

Therefore, if Professor Sun Dong wants to promote innovation and technology in Hong Kong, it will be difficult to succeed if these three carriages are not reformed.

But it is also very difficult to carry out reforms, because they have become the base of very solidified interests.

The Productivity Promotion Bureau is a system that emerged during the industrial development in the 1970s. What is its current value?

It's headquartered in another village, why isn't it amalgamated with city university?

What about becoming part of City University?

Why can't Cyberport merge with the University of Hong Kong?

Instead, the University of Hong Kong has to spend another sum of money to build a large number of hardware such as technology office buildings.

The hardware of Cyberport is so close to HKU, why can't they be merged?

Why is the fifth phase of Cyberport built without any sense of technology, like a shopping mall by the sea?

Cyberport shopping mall has become a no-man’s land, how should it be revitalized, and how should it be done by brainstorming?

Among the three platforms, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park is the largest and the most extensive, so it is the most important.

The first task must be to review the future development model of the Science and Technology Park. The current real estate-led model is not suitable.

For example, there are luxury houses around the science and technology park, but if there are luxury houses around and there are no low- and middle-income housing facilities, how can it hire enough employees?

If the entire science and technology park is to develop well, it is necessary to adjust the strategy of the entire land planning space, and the lease term of three years is unreasonable. To cultivate mature innovation and technology enterprises, it takes more than ten years to be normal.

We will ask again: Tseung Kwan O Innovation and Technology Park is currently promoting big data and digital entertainment. What companies are there?

What are the highlights?

Has the post-production company of Tomorrow Wars been invited to set up a studio there?

This question involves specific planning, but if the layman leads the layman model, nothing can be planned at all.

Hong Kong's I&T policy is chaotic and illogical

In the past 30 years, Hong Kong has not been able to develop science and technology.

Professor Sun Dong actually knows that to promote innovation and technology, some experiments and pilots must be carried out.

Hong Kong is currently lagging behind in innovation and technology, and its investment model is also very backward.

Hong Kong investors only like to invest in companies that have been successful, or invest in foreign companies.

Be a Bole, there are few examples of investing in Hong Kong companies to grow them.

So, what are Hong Kong's strengths?

One of the strengths of Hong Kong’s innovation and technology is medical treatment, such as proprietary Chinese medicine and food. Some traditional Chinese medicine factories can be found in Yuen Long Industrial Zone and Tai Po Industrial Zone.

Hong Kong also has the ability to expand food-related industries, and should focus on this aspect to make greater achievements.

How to make international catering institutions such as Lee Kum Kee and Vitasoy invest in innovation and technology in Hong Kong and link them with their products is an important issue.

Innovation and technology should be done with heart and strength.

Force means having the "ability" to do it, not more seminars or more seminars.

Tseung Kwan O Innovation Park is positioned as a data center, but what does its data center have to do with the government's big data policy?

Hong Kong's current I&T policy is not only chaotic, it is basically like a wild horse with no logic.

This year, President Xi Jinping's visit to Hong Kong Science and Technology Park is actually very embarrassing, because Hong Kong basically has no bright spot in innovation and technology; Xi's wife, Peng Liyuan, went to the West Kowloon Cultural District to watch a Cantonese opera performance, but there was also no bright spot.

Is there no bright spot in Hong Kong?

Or does the Hong Kong government not know what the bright spots of Hong Kong are?

This is the core of the problem.

This recycling factory scandal completely exposed the core problem of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, which is that it has no focus. They only hold large-scale events and do not develop at all.

For the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park to do well, there are several directions: the Legislative Council must supervise and require the Science and Technology Park to explain, and it must have a specific account for each park and its subordinate industries; who is the management of the leasing department, and whether it is managed by people who really understand technology People managed, or managed by people with solidified interests?

There is a serious problem of solidifying interests in Hong Kong, which has spread to many places, and the innovation and technology industry is no exception.

Holding a press conference to explain will not solve the core problem, why the Science Park kicked out a company that has invested tens of millions, nor can anyone see that the Science Park has any strategy to promote Hong Kong's environmental protection and waste recycling industry. develop.

The science park must have the greatest physical responsibility in this area, and it has room for all kinds of garbage collection and technological innovation.

If it is successful, it will have the ability to spread to other parts of the Greater Bay Area and exert its influence, proving that Hong Kong has really made achievements under the national policy of sustainable development.

Turning garbage into treasure is the spirit of Hong Kong people, but the Science and Technology Park has forgotten it.

Therefore, the Science and Technology Park must reflect on it carefully, the Legislative Council members must properly supervise it, and Professor Sun Dong and the Hong Kong SAR Government must re-examine the role and function of the Science and Technology Park, and carry out substantial and systematic reforms and innovations.

The author Hu Enwei is a member of the National Hong Kong and Macao Research Association, a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, and Zuni.

Icosahedron United Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer.

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