Evolving from the Triple Helix: The Innovation Models of Hong Kong’s Applied Research Institute

Since the return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, Hong Kong has attempted to define and shape her unique role in the larger context. Prior to 1997, Hong Kong enjoyed a prestigious status along with Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. Named the four little dragons in Asia, they were noted for their high growth rate and rapid industrialization in the period of 1960s to 1990s (Vogel 1991). In the early twenty-first century, global attention has, at least partly, shifted to other Asian economies that have experienced high growth and transformation. Hong Kong, on the other hand, has had to reposition itself from a 150-year-old British colony to a special administrative region of China (Mathews et al. 2007). Not only her people need to relearn to live with a new identity, but the city herself needs to find a unique role with China under the “one country, two systems” principle.

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