KE Stories

Nurturing Entrepreneurship

DreamCatchers is HKU's newly launched Entrepreneurship series, providing a hub to inspire and nurture innovation and entrepreneurship, with forums, mixers, events, courses, marketplaces, co-workspaces and portal, covering all tech, biz, social, cultural and media spheres. It is cross-sector and inter-generational, for alumni and students with passion and determination to innovate and change the world.

A University at Your Fingertips

The HKU Scholars Hub puts more than 1,000 scholars and their outputs and expertise within easy reach of potential industry partners, research postgraduates, other academics and the media, enabling them to engage at the most fundamental level in the sharing of knowledge.

Domestic Helpers Get an Alternative

Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong come from developing Asian countries in pursuit of jobs to help support their families at home. Unfortunately, to secure these jobs the workers often have to pay significant and often illegal placement fees, which leave them deep in debt and reluctant to walk away, even if abused by their employers.

Start it Up with TSSSU@HKU: Matters of the Heart

Here's a golden opportunity for the entrepreneurial-minded to translate their new technologies and inventions into business opportunities. TSSSU@HKU is a new award programme with an annual budget of HK$4 million, and the HKU edition of the Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) launched by the Innovation and Technology Commission in October 2014. It provides funding support to technology startup companies formed by HKU students, staff and alumni.

An Improved Tool for Spinal Cord Monitoring

Next Generation Anti-Inflammatory Drug

Something New and Blue for Display and Lighting Applications

Breakthrough in Treating Cancers

Maximising Our Impact

Knowledge Exchange (KE) has firmly become the third mission of HKU – it cuts across all disciplines and is the "natural" process in the University's interactions with the community, from licensing inventions to developing models to address social problems to engaging the public in culture and the humanities. But rewind a few years back and the KE management was facing the challenge of a much narrower focus in the local higher education sector.