研究與發展
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
60
香港科技大學
2010-2011
年報
HKUST 2010-2011 Annual Report
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Spin-off companies continued to provide success stories
in 2010-2011, while the University arranged special
events and regular activities to promote entrepreneurship.
The University has nurtured 46 start-up companies to
date through its HKUST Entrepreneurship Center which
is dedicated to advancing hi-tech entrepreneurship
education, facilitating knowledge transfer activities
at HKUST, and business incubation. An important
element of this championing of new businesses is the
Entrepreneurship Program, which was introduced in 1999
to assist faculty, staff and students in the establishment of
technology-based start-up companies.
The following gives some of the year’s highlights:
•
Gene-Vinate Limited, a member of the
Entrepreneurship Program, received a patent from
Taiwan for its “Method and Composition for Treating
Skin Wounds with Epidermal Growth Factor”. This was
the company’s third patent following the granting of
patents in the US and China.
•
Electronic and Computer Engineering Adjunct
Professor and HKUST’s first PhD graduate Prof Jack Lau
achieved further success in June when his consumer
electronics solutions company, Perception Digital, was
transferred from the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM)
of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to the Main Board.
The company became the first venture established
under the Entrepreneurship Program to obtain a listing
when it was listed on the GEM in December 2009.
•
HKUST’s first Entrepreneurship Day held at HKUST
in October 2010 proved a huge success. Nearly 300
experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs took part in
the event, organized by the Entrepreneurship Center,
to promote HKUST entrepreneurship and facilitate
networking. Speakers included Legislative Councillor
for Information Technology Dr Samson Tam and a host
of alumni entrepreneurs.
•
The first annual HKUST MBA Entrepreneurship
Conference was held in October 2010. The conference
was organized by the MBA Alumni Association
in partnership with the School of Business and
Management and The Entrepreneurs’ Network (TEN)
on the theme “Leveraging the China Market”. More
than 80 MBA, Executive MBA, exchange students and
alumni attended.
•
The second HKUST Asian Entrepreneurship
Roundtable, arranged by The Center for Asian Family
Business and Entrepreneurship Studies brought
together 100 academics and market participants from
diverse industries and countries. Under discussion
were topics such as financing growth for the region’s
entrepreneurs, corporate entrepreneurship in Asia, whether
Asian entrepreneurs are different, and the challenges of
globalizing Asian entrepreneurial businesses.
•
The Entrepreneurship Center’s Knowledge Café arranged
experience-sharing sessions between March and June 2011
for its Special Interest Groups. The groups are organized
in line with the University’s five high-impact research
areas. The sessions invited active entrepreneurs to provide
industry updates and engage in interactive discussion of
their experiences. Interest group members were also able
to get to know each other, encouraging the development
of working relationships.
•
The Entrepreneurship Center organized a series of practical
seminars on how to “Be Your Own Boss” from February to
April 2011, featuring seasoned industrialists.
•
Mr Frank Wang and Mr Jianyu Song from the School
of Engineering succeeded in putting their self-designed
unmanned helicopter on an unprecedented autonomous
flight across the world’s deepest canyon — the Yarlung
Zangbo Grand Canyon, dubbed “the last territory of
mystery on earth”. The iFlight Technology team, led by
Prof Zexiang Li, received the Third Runner-up award In the
HKUST 2011 Entrepreneurship Competition. They founded
the company Dajiang Innovation Technology Co, Ltd (DJI),
which is now one of the world’s leading developers and
manufacturers of helicopter autopilot systems.
•
The championship of the HKUST 2011 Entrepreneurship
Competition was Wah Kin Holdings Ltd whose hair-testing
technology provides fast, accurate reports on people’s
health. It was followed by LEDoS, a breakthrough display
technology based on proprietary micro-projection devices,
Allegro IQ, which uses innovative technologies to make
music education more effective, and iFlight. The Student
Award went to Bull B Tech, with its streamlined business-
to-customer process which has wide applications in the
retail industry. The competition saw over 120 teams enter,
with 11 chosen as finalists. It was supported by venture
capitalist companies including the Morningside Group, IDG
Venture Capital, and Northern Light Venture Capital.
•
Nine Technology and Management Dual Degree students
were nominated to join the MIT Global Startup Workshop
2011, held in Seoul, Korea in March. The event is
the world’s premier workshop dedicated to fostering
entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems globally,
attracting entrepreneurial leaders, financiers, students,
professors, government agencies and private parties. Third-
year student, Kanishk Bali, won third prize in the Elevator
Pitch Competition, competing against more than 40 other
entrants.
與科大有關的分拆公司繼續於
2010-2011
年成功發展，科大
安排特別及定期活動推廣創業精神。科大的創業中心專責推
動高科技創業教育、促進科大的知識轉移活動、培育新公司
等，至今已協助設立
46
間新公司。科大於
1999
年展開的創
業計劃協助教職員及學生成立以科技為本的創業公司，令新
公司獲益不淺。
以下為今年的部分活動：
•
參加科大創業計劃的公司之一尊衛理有限公司以
「
Method and Composition for Treating Skin Wounds with
Epidermal Growth Factor
」獲得一項台灣專利。這是公司
繼取得美國和內地專利後的第三項專利。
•
電子及計算機工程學系兼任教授兼科大首位博士畢業生
廖家俊教授再創佳績，由他創立的消費電子產品解決方
案公司幻音數碼於
2011
年
6
月由香港交易所創業板轉往
主板上市。在此以前，該公司於
2009
年
12
月於創業板
上市，成為科大創業計劃下首間上市公司。
•
科大於
2010
年
10
月首次舉行創業日，空前成功。創業
日由創業中心舉辦，近
300
位創業家共聚一堂，以推廣
科大的創業精神及加強聯繫。講者包括立法會資訊科技
界議員譚偉豪博士以及多名校友企業家。
•
第一屆企業家精神會議於
2010
年
10
月舉行，由工商管
理碩士校友會聯同商學院及企業家網絡舉辦，主題為
「充分利用中國市場」，超過
80
名工商管理碩士、行政人
員工商管理碩士、交換生及校友出席。
•
由科大亞洲家族企業與創業研究中心舉辦的第二屆科大
武海企業家圓桌會議吸引
100
名來自不同國家和行業的
學者及市場界人士參加，題目包括區域內企業家的融資
增長、亞洲的企業創建精神、亞洲企業家是否與別不
同，以至亞洲企業全球化的挑戰。
•
於
2011
年
3
月至
6
月期間，創業中心的
Knowledge Café
為特別興趣小組舉辦經驗分享會。這些小組按照科大五
個最具影響力的研究範疇成立；科大邀請活躍於業界的
企業家於分享會上提供最新資訊，並以互動方式與參加
者討論他們的經驗，增進彼此的認識、鼓勵發展合作
關係。
•
創業中心在
2011
年
2
月至
4
月間舉辦一系列
Be Your
Own Boss
講座，由資深業界人士主講。
•
工學院的汪滔先生和宋健宇先生成功將研製的無人駕駛
直升機，以橫越有地球上最後秘境之稱的世界第一大峽
谷雅魯藏布大峽谷。而由李澤湘教授帶領的智翔隊伍則
於科大
2011
年創業計劃大賽中奪得殿軍。他們其後成立
深圳市大疆創新科技有限公司，現已成為全球領先的直
升機自動導航系統研發及製造商之一。
•
華健公司在科大
2011
年創業計劃大賽中勇奪冠軍，該
公司的頭髮測試技術可在短時間內準確提供測試者的健
康報告。亞軍作品為將硅基
LED
技術微投影設備應用於
突破性顯示技術
LEDoS
。季軍是使用創新科技提升音樂
教育成效的樂靈通，殿軍則由智翔科技奪得。
Bull.b
隊
伍以廣泛應用於零售業的簡易操作界面奪得學生獎。賽
事有超過
120
支隊伍參加，共
11
支隊伍晉身決賽。賽事
獲
Morningside Group
、
IDG Venture Capital
、
Northern
Light Venture Capital
等公司支持。
•
九名科技及管理學雙學位學生獲提名參加
3
月在韓國首
爾舉行的麻省理工學院全球創業工作坊
2011
。這個高水
平的工作坊以促進創業精神及企業生態系統為主旨，吸
引企業領袖、金融專才、學生、教授、官員及私人團體
參與。在電梯游說比賽中，三年級學生Kanishk Bali從逾
40名參加者中脫穎而出，奪得第三名。
