Greater Bay Area a center of innovation

On July 1, 2017, President Xi Jinping expounded in Hong Kong a vision for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to be a global center of international scientific and technological innovation.

As the world has other bay areas with longer and successful histories, the Greater Bay Area should reflect on the lessons to be learned from the existing bay areas. From these it can be seen that there are at least two areas of fundamental importance: The first is what role will research universities play in the Greater Bay Area. The second is how to fund enterprises in the region, especially those in their beginning and growing phases.

Universities produce outstanding research