{"id":120070,"date":"2021-11-05T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T04:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/?post_type=press&#038;p=120070"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:37:30","slug":"cuhk-launches-six-innohk-centres-to-power-the-innovation-agenda","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/cuhk-launches-six-innohk-centres-to-power-the-innovation-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"CUHK launches six InnoHK Centres to power the innovation agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-120070","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20211105","keep":false,"details":"In a major contribution to Hong Kong\u2019s innovation agenda, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has established six <em>InnoHK<\/em> Centres covering health, biomedicine, robotics and artificial intelligence. Located at the Hong Kong Science Park and established under the Hong Kong Government\u2019s <em>InnoHK<\/em> initiative, the centres apply CUHK\u2019s world-class research discoveries to generate translational impact on a local, national and global scale. \r\n\r\nCombining expertise from CUHK and leveraging partners from prestigious global universities, such as Oxford, Cambridge, Karolinska Institutet, UC Berkeley, ETH Zurich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centres will position Hong Kong as a global powerhouse of innovation connecting the world with the rapidly emerging research and innovation ecosystem of the Greater Bay Area. \r\n\r\nCUHK\u2019s Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Rocky S. Tuan said \u201cthese six centres capture the essence of CUHK\u2019s excellence and reflect two key areas of focus under our new Strategic Plan \u2013 Innovative Biomedicine and Information and Automation Technology. The co-location of research teams with industry partners and the injection of international collaborators enables extraordinary research breakthroughs to have translational impacts that can benefit economies, peoples and societies on a potentially enormous scale.\u201d \r\n\r\nCUHK\u2019s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sham Mai-Har said \u201cso many of the world\u2019s most important translational research emerges from outstanding frontier discovery conducted at universities. These centres will translate the outputs of CUHK\u2019s world-class research into to new products, novel solutions and expand our technology applications to markets which will enable more people to benefit from the research we do.\u201d\r\n\r\nCUHK has seeded two unicorns \u2013 the most of any university in Hong Kong, and has seeded many startups and successful spinout companies. The <em>InnoHK<\/em> centres feature alongside other developments in the University\u2019s research, innovation and entrepreneurship agenda that include the CUHK InnoPort, Innovation and Entrepreneur Days, and the University\u2019s recent Forum on Developments in the Greater Bay Area. \r\n\r\nFive of the centres have commenced operations at the Hong Kong Science Park, with the sixth soon scheduled to commence in January 2022.","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":[{"photo":120067,"caption":"Centre for Novostics"},{"photo":120065,"caption":"Centre for Novostics"},{"photo":120061,"caption":"Microbiota I-Center"},{"photo":120062,"caption":"Microbiota I-Center"},{"photo":120054,"caption":"Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Restorative Medicine"},{"photo":120059,"caption":"Center for Neuromusculoskeletal Restorative Medicine"},{"photo":120060,"caption":"Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics"},{"photo":120053,"caption":"Hong Kong Centre for Logistics Robotics"},{"photo":120064,"caption":"Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center"},{"photo":120063,"caption":"Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center"},{"photo":120058,"caption":"Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence"},{"photo":120057,"caption":"Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence"}],"attachments":[{"text":"FACT SHEET AND BACKGROUND","link":"","file":120089}],"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/120070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/120070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120092,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/120070\/revisions\/120092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}