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The HK Tech 300 - Building a Startup Bridge between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

Professor Michael Yang, Vice President of Research & Technology, City University of Hong Kong

19-May-23 12:00

The HK Tech 300 - Building a Startup Bridge between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia

Last week, the City University of Hong Kong, launched the first ever HK Tech 300 Southeast Asia Startup Competition in Kuala Lumpur, bringing its large-scale flagship innovation and entrepreneurship programme to the region for the first time.

The Top 10 winners of this competition will each be awarded angel funding of up to HK$1 million ( around RM565,000).

The Southeast Asian competition is a spinoff of the HK Tech 300 programme which was launched in March 2021 in Hong Kong, and to date has supported more than 560 startups, each of which received HK$100,000 in seed funding, and it has provided up to HK$1 million in angel funding to more than 110 startups.

We speak to Professor Michael Yang, Vice President of Research & Technology at the City University of Hong Kong, the Chairman of the HK Tech 300 Executive Committee, about the value of this program, how it plans to promote technology transfer and commercialisation, and more.

Produced by: Roshan Kanesan

Presented by: Roshan Kanesan, Freda Liu


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