{"id":54,"date":"2014-02-13T21:48:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-02-13T21:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:48:50","slug":"hong-kong-tech-hub-finance-manufacture-turn-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/hong-kong-tech-hub-finance-manufacture-turn-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong tech hub: where finance &amp; manufacture turn into startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is better known for its financial expertise and culture of manufacturing than its startups. However, a generation of bored bankers and veterans of the factories are becoming the first generation of tech entrepreneurs in \u00ab\u00a0Asia&rsquo;s New York\u00a0\u00bb. What is the position of Hong Kong as an innovation ecosystem? What are the links with mainland China and its tech giants?<\/p>\n<p>We have been to Hong Kong in February, both to attend a open-hardware hackathon run by Protei, and to visit the local hackerspace and meet the three godfathers of the local tech scene.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/33361983\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Innovation is everywhere - Hong Kong Innovation Ecosystem and Startup Scene\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/innovationiseverywhere\/innovation-is-everywhere-hong-kong-innovation-ecosystem-and-startup-scene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation is everywhere &#8211; Hong Kong Innovation Ecosystem and Startup Scene<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/innovationiseverywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation is Everywhere<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>In this report, you will find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How three guys made possible the birth of an embryo of a startup scene back in 2008-2009<\/li>\n<li>Why the two main expertise of Hong Kong, finance and manufacturing, are two assets when it comes to building startups<\/li>\n<li>What to expect from Hong Kong recent attachment to China after decades of British rule<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong is better known for its financial expertise and culture of manufacturing than its startups. However, a generation of bored bankers and veterans of the factories are becoming the first generation of tech entrepreneurs in \u00ab\u00a0Asia&rsquo;s New York\u00a0\u00bb. What is the position of Hong Kong as an innovation ecosystem? What are the links with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98,54,47,52,48,49,92,51,87],"tags":[46,90],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accelerators-incubators","category-community","category-countries","category-events-innovators","category-government-innovators","category-innovators-category","category-investors-angels-vcs","category-markets-category","category-startups-innovators","tag-asia","tag-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}