RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT
In 2013-14, the University secured total research funding of $485 million from various sources, the
largest of which was from Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC). A total of 219 new research
projects were awarded by RGC, with a total project value of $177 million. HKUST researchers also
achieved the highest success rate (51%) among local institutions in the competitive 2013 General
Research Fund exercise.
SPEARHEADING DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION
Two HKUST-led Areas of Excellence science projects focused on Novel Wave Functional Materials
for Manipulating Light and Sound and Mechanistic Basis of Synaptic Development, Signaling and
Neuro-disorders were awarded a total of $96 million. Another $23 million was awarded under
the Collaborative Research Fund for three projects entitled New Topological States in Cold Atom
and Condensed Matter Physics Systems, Research in Fundamental Physics: From the Large Hadron
Collider to the Universe and Super-resolution Imaging: Revealing the Molecular Organization of
Subcellular Organelles.
HKUST has built on its existing strengths to push forward research
frontiers, transfer new knowledge and applications to the wider
community, and inspire an entrepreneurial culture on campus and beyond
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