Vision

• Develop Hong Kong as an international innovation and technology centre

Mission

• Diversify economy
• Create high-quality jobs
• Improve quality of life
• Contribute to meeting the needs of the country

Positioning

• Enable technological breakthrough and explore new service and business models with innovative mindsets, and promote social innovation for the development of a city of innovation
• Leverage Hong Kong's advantages to complement national development and integrate into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area under the 14th Five-Year Plan

Our Role

Through creating a vibrant ecosystem for the government, industry, academia and the research sector with excellent software and hardware support, we aim to develop Hong Kong into a knowledge-based economy and an innovation hub for technology and its application in the region. To this end, we will :

• strengthen support for the innovation and technology sector;
• facilitate the development of the information and communications technology industry;
• strengthen cooperation among stakeholders and create greater synergy;
• encourage private sector participation in R&D and commercialisation of R&D results;
• coordinate inter-bureau policy efforts in R&D and technology matters;
• strengthen collaboration with other economies to promote scientific and technology exchanges;
• enhance support for nurturing of innovation and technology talents;
• foster development of innovation and technology to promote development of “re-industrialisation” and advanced manufacturing industry; and
• facilitate development of smart city and digital economy.