Innovation Showcase - Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Where Virtual Worlds have Become a Reality

The imseCAVE has become the go-to technology in Hong Kong for creating virtual worlds

Artificial Intelligence at Your Service

The startup, Accosys Ltd, provides AI concierge services for the public sector and service industry that can give a much better user experience

HKU DreamCatchers 100K

DreamCatchers, HKU's entrepreneurship series launched in 2015, provides a platform to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship. The HKU DreamCatchers 100K was launched in early 2016 to provide seed fund for young entrepreneurs to kick off their businesses.

Engineering Plants for a Brighter Future

Plant biologists at HKU offer two technologies that may help address climate change and crop productivity.

Wearable Technology for Industry

The startup, Comma Technology Ltd, is focused on portable and wearable technology for logistics and manufacturing industries.

'Dental Development: An Aid to Give Identities and to Inform General Health'

Dr Hai Ming Wong and a team of PhD and BDS students in the Faculty of Dentistry have applied dental age assessment to address the social issue of unregistered births in India. They received the University’s Knowledge Exchange Excellence Award 2015 and the Faculty KE Award 2015 of the Faculty of Dentistry for this project.

Taking the Guesswork Out of Logistics

Manufacturers have to keep track of many different things at the same time to enhance the productivity of workers, from the movement of materials through shop-floor activities to product shipments. Trying to juggle all this efficiently is a constant challenge. But a new platform developed by HKU engineers is proving remarkably successful at the task and is also saving firms money.

Growing Cartilage from our Stem Cells

Living Tissues Co. Ltd. is a new start-up that has emerged from the 21st century vision of an HKU laboratory to grow new tissues from the stem cells in our bone marrow and use them to repair damaged parts of our bodies.

A 21st Century Learning Project

Hong Kong's 1,000-plus primary and secondary schools will soon all be equipped with wifi and other infrastructure for e-learning. But what does that learning look like? A team of engineering graduates are about to provide the first locally-developed answer.