【EyE On U】着眼灣區聯繫 創造交流平台
應科院首席執行官：單憑香港不足以讓初創公司成為獨角獸
香港應用科技研究院創立的目標是什麼？應科院採取了哪些舉措來通過應用科學提高香港科技產業的競爭力？面對如今的局勢，香港的科技產業將面臨何種挑戰？本期節目我們邀請到了應科院首席執行官葉成輝博士來談談他對香港應用科技發展的看法，以及各行業如何通過應用科技來抓住大灣區的新興機遇，推動建立科創生態系統，將香港建設成為一個國際創科中心。
主持︰So under the National 14th Five-Year Plan, we are aiming to build HK as an international I&T hub as a very good technology hub for the world. What will ASTRI do to achieve this goal?
在國家「十四五」規劃中，我們的目標是把香港建設成為一個國際創科中心，成為世界上的一流科技技術中心。為實現這一目標，應科院將怎麼做？
嘉賓︰Well, I think it's very clear if you look at President Xi's visit in July. The only place that usually he won't go, this time he went is actually Science Park. So I think promoting HK to be the I&T ecosystem and an innovation hub actually is not something only HK will do, it's actually the China's initiative to help HKSAR to become a role of going into the international side.
我認為通過習主席2022年7月視察香港，大家應該就很清楚了。他通常不會去但這次他視察了的地方就是香港科學園，因此，我認為推動香港創科生態發展成為創新中心，不僅僅是特區的目標，也是國家的政策，讓香港特區在該領域內走向國際。
I think for enhancing the whole innovation hub, there are few areas that we need to look at. One is how do we get the basic university research to commercialize, because HK, actually, if you look at the QS 100 ranking, five universities are ranked in the top 100, but I think there is an improvement that can be made, which is to look at those researchers in the HK top universities to apply to help HK, help GBA, so that HK becomes an innovation hub.
要增強香港作為創科中心的實力，就要關注以下幾方面，其一是我們如何讓大學的基礎研究實現商業化。如果你看一下QS大學排名，就會發現香港有5所大學在前100名中，但我認為有一個可以改進的地方，就是要讓這些頂尖學府內的研究人員將其技術投入應用，助力香港和大灣區發展，使香港成為創科中心。
Secondly, it's actually talent which we just mentioned, and then thirdly, it's actually how we build an ecosystem. What the government policy is? What the university research are? What are the research institutes that can match? And then how do you match with, what we call commercialization, how the companies use it. If these four areas can be interconnected and make it more positive, I think HK will definitely be able to become the big innovation hub of the world.
第二是我們剛才提到的人才問題，第三，我們要思考如何建立一個所謂的生態系統。政府的政策是什麼？大學的研究是什麼方向？有哪些研究機構可以與之匹配？如何推動商業的配對，使得一些公司能應用相關的技術。如果這四個方面能夠相互聯通起來，更加積極地發揮作用，我想香港一定能夠成為國際的重要創新中心。
主持︰Mentioning about the GBA, the Greater Bay Area, how do you envision the development of applied science and technology in the GBA, and how can ASTRI contribute to this development?
提到粵港澳大灣區，你對應用科技在大灣區的發展有什麼設想？香港應用科技研究院又會作何貢獻？
嘉賓︰That's a very good question. Actually, ASTRI has about 70 people in Shenzhen right now, and these 70 people actually, we will be probably doubling that soon. We are working with Futian government, and Futian government is actually working with us on different projects, and they're actually using also the GBA universities like the HKUST, to have PhD students working on our projects.
這是個很好的問題。事實上，應科院現在在深圳有大約70人，這個70人的團隊我們將很快會使其擴充一倍。我們正在與福田區政府合作開發不同的項目，實際上他們也有和大灣區的大學合作，比如港科大，讓他們的博士生參與到一些項目中。
And my belief is, the HK technology side has a lot to learn from what Shenzhen has, because when you use a technology in HK, the most you can use is 7 million people using it, and that is not enough to become a unicorn. If you look at HK's 12 to 18 unicorns right now, they become unicorn not because they are having revenue in HK, they become unicorns because they are having big revenue either in mainland or in outside China, on the overseas areas. So I think to really cultivate this, when you look at the HK and GBA connection on technology, we need to work more closely together.
我的觀念是 ，香港在技術方面可以從深圳學到很多東西，因為當你在香港應用一項技術時，最多也只有700萬人使用它，而這並不足以使一個初創公司成為獨角獸。
如果你看一下香港現在的12家到18家獨角獸，他們成為獨角獸不是因為他們在香港有營收，而是因為他們在內地或海外地區也有很高的營收。所以我認為，要真正培養獨角獸，就要着眼於香港和大灣區其他城市在科技上的聯繫，進行更加密切的合作。
Also, we need to have an exchange in talent, so the ASTRI's role is actually creating a bigger GBA presence, so that our 500 researchers in HK and our 70 researchers in Shenzhen can interconnect to look at what are the deepest technology nowadays, what we are working on and how to enhance that.
我們還需要人才的交流，因此，應科院的作用實際上是創造一個更大的大灣區平台，讓我們在香港的500名研究人員和在深圳的70名研究人員可以相互聯繫，看看現在最精深的技術是什麼，反思我們做得怎麼樣，以及可以怎樣進一步提升。
◆ 點新聞英文節目《EyE on U》，由立法會議員容海恩及梁熙主持，邀請香港社會各界包括政界、商界及專業人士，分享及討論社會熱話。
