START-UP

06 April 2022

Single-vehicle collisions on remote roads late at night; a highway crash caused by a driver texting while driving; a truck that veered off the road at the end of its driver’s 12-hour shift. A single thread runs through these sad and familiar scenarios – driver inattention. More

Tech & Innovation

Scents and sensibility

04 April 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, bottles of hand sanitiser have become ubiquitous in Hong Kong homes, offices and handbags. Sales have surged since the outbreak began in early 2020 and the Asia-Pacific hand sanitiser market is expected to expand at a 14.4% compound annual growth rate between 2020 and 2026, according to KBV Research. More

Tech & Innovation

Healthcare goes digital

29 March 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the health industry, driving rapid digitalisation in the healthcare sector and forcing suppliers of medical devices and services to adapt. More

Tech & Innovation

Web 3.0 becomes hot property

14 March 2022

A new dawn of the internet is upon us. The blockchain-technology-based Web 3.0 incorporates concepts including decentralisation and token-based economics. A leading Web 3.0 firm is Hong Kong unicorn Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner that ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021. With more than 600 employees globally, Animoca’s vision is to create an open, community-driven metaverse, Group President Evan Auyang said. More

Market Opportunities

Innovation tops agenda

08 March 2022

In the 20th century, the “roaring 20s” became famous for the birth of the jazz age and the arrival of “talkie” movies. In the 2020s, the defining feature so far appears to be uncertainty – which to optimists also means opportunity. More

Tech & Innovation

Beefing up the biotech value chain

03 March 2022

Melbourne grew explosively in the mid-19th century following the discovery of gold in Victoria, and the city later found its feet as a wool export hub. By the 21st century, Melbourne had developed into a resource and life-sciences hub, continuing to update its capabilities. More

Tech & Innovation

IT drives Industry 4.0

02 March 2022

In order to accelerate the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) to create an intelligent manufacturing industry, Hong Kong-based innovation and technology company Nexsen sees Industry 4.0 as an opportunity to actively expand into offshore markets. More

Sustainability

Bulky trash becomes usable plastic

24 February 2022

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam, commonly known as “styrofoam” and widely used in packaging and disposable containers for food and drinks, can take hundreds of years to decompose in the natural environment, causing long-term pollution. More

Tech & Innovation

Exchanges get on express track

22 February 2022

Stocks, bonds and futures in everything from financial instruments, coffee to gold and hydrocarbons used to be traded in open-outcry exchanges – an apt name considering the organised chaos in the pits. Scenes of traders clad in bright jackets yelling bids amid a blizzard of ticker tape and order slips made for good news footage, but the business model was ill-suited to the digital age. More

Entrepreneurship

Wealth managers go digital

10 February 2022

Wealth management – directing clients’ money towards investments that generate the most attractive returns or yields – is a field ripe for technological innovation. As wealth managers deal with multitudes of different client types, all these clients have a variety of different needs creating a vacuum for personalised wealth management solutions. Digitalising their client experience, via a modular, configurable platform, allows the wealth managers the flexibility to personalise their offerings to address a wide range of clients and their needs. More

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