The Chief Executive’s 2024 Policy Address in Hong Kong (16 October 2024)  1.     2.     Develop new quality productive forces ·         Formulate medium to long-term development plan for new industrialisation in Hong Kong, and facilitate the establishment of the Hong Kong New Industrialisation Development Alliance to promote collaboration among the Government, industry, academia, research and investment sectors ·         Take forward the third InnoHK research cluster with focuses on advanced manufacturing materials, energy and sustainable development ·         Increase investment for research and innovation and technology (I&T) industries o   Set up a $10 billion I&T Industry-Oriented Fund to form a fund-of-funds to channel more market capital to invest in specified emerging and future industries of strategic importance o   Optimise the Innovation and Technology Venture Fund by redeploying $1.5 billion to set up joint funds to invest in start-ups of strategic industries o   Launch a $1.5 billion Research Matching Grant Scheme to support research endeavours ·         Allocate $180 million to set up the Pilot I&T Accelerator Scheme to attract professional start-up service providers from local and outside Hong Kong to set up accelerator bases on a matching basis. ·         Formulate low-altitude economy development strategies and inter-departmental actions o   Explore low-altitude flying application scenarios o   Draw up the relevant regulations o   Promote interface with the Mainland o   Study and plan for infrastructure and network ·         Promote development of Hong Kong into an international health and medical innovation hub o   Extend coverage of the “1+” mechanism to all new drugs and take steps to establish the Hong Kong Centre for Medical Products Regulation towards adoption of “primary evaluation” o   Develop the Greater Bay Area Clinical Trial Collaboration Platform o   Establish the Real-World Study and Application Centre to accelerate approval of new drugs in Hong Kong ·         Promote digital economy by expediting development of digital trade and establishing a new fintech innovation ecosystem(Source: https://www.policyaddress.gov.hk/2024/en/highlight.html & https://www.policyaddress.gov.hk/2024/en/policy.html ) (ICE HONG KONG)

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