The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region founded the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) in 2001 to capture the promises of technological advances for Hong Kong through applied research. Its missions are to perform high quality R&D for technology transfer to industry, develop needed technical human resources and act as a focal point that brings together industry and university R&D assets.
As Hong Kong\'s applied technology research center focused on providing world-class innovative technologies, ASTRI\'s R&D activities focus on four closely interrelated
Our goals, in the next phase of ASTRI\'s development, will be to build a totally customer-focused R&D organization that not only conducts world-class research, but also excels in bringing real industrial impact, continuously and in volume.
technological domains - IC Designs, Communications Technologies, Enterprise & Consumer Electronics, and Material & Packaging Technologies. In the past few years, ASTRI has built a team of excellent researchers who are already conducting world-class research. Our goals, in the next phase of ASTRI\'s development, will be to build a totally customer-focused R&D organization that not only conducts world-class research, but also excels in bringing real industrial impact, continuously and in volume. Our objectives will be nothing short of establishing ASTRI as one of the most influential R&D forces in the entire Greater China Region, and a truly strategic asset that would enable Hong Kong to capture values from competitive technologies for years to come.
In April 2006, the Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) launched the Hong Kong R&D Centre Initiative with the objective to promote applied R&D and facilitate technology transfer and commercialization under a new strategic framework for innovation and technology development. Sharing the same missions, ASTRI was designated as the Hong Kong R&D Centre for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT R&D Centre) to perform market leading-edge R&D and enhance Hong Kong\'s technological competitiveness on a continuous basis.
