KE Stories

Sharing Knowledge for the Benefit of All

I believe publicly funded research is a public good, and I hope Hong Kong can focus on how to maximise the benefits of that public good.

Data: Now Open for Business

There is enormous public benefit from these plans for making government data open. The reality is the government can never supply enough information, and the cost of making these data available is marginal.

A Culturally-Sensitive Tool to Assess Asia’s Young Children

Children tend to be precocious in the skills that are valued in their culture.

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.

Portraits of Knowledge Exchange

As a researcher, I find great satisfaction when our findings result in a product or practice that resolves a pain or difficulty in people's lives or an existing problem in industry; when our research influences policy development for the benefit of society; when we contribute to solving problems for an NGO or practitioners; when we bring arts and cultural enrichment to the community; and when we enhance the knowledge of the general public.