Hong Kong's High-Tech Technology Incubator

Austin Huggins writes "The BBC is reporting on a new hi-tech complex built in Hong Kong to attract tech businesses. 'It has taken four years to build and comes complete with a hi-tech hotel, apartments, shops and services.' And they have a 100 mbs network to boot." As the article points out, Hong Kong has a suddenly harder time keeping ahead of booming cities in mainland China.

Not supprised

[bogaboga]

The Asians have done great technological strides in recent decades. Already, in the US, the best cars, televisons, computers and their monitors radios and phones are made in Asia. Multimedia effort bore fruit in Asia long ago...we in the US are just beginning to see what can be done in this field. The problem is, when an implementation is made, we brag about it. The Asians are working like the Russians - they never brag. When one visits Tokyo, a realization comes to fact that US cities are far behind.

Services too are being outsorced to Asia. Naturally research dollars will follow. This can only be bad for American students.

Toyota, in just decades is at the fore-front of the car industry already. This is a company that made a car 40 years after Ford and GM. Contrast that with GM, the alleged giggest car producer. You will go to every continent and find Toyota in good numbers, but not for GM. Now, Ford has been replaced by Toyota. GM will be next.

Having lived in a number of Asian countries, I can attest to the fact that Asians are simply driven to succeed. They will pirate/copy and do anything to get to where they have to. Sometimes, their respective governments support them.

Pretty soon, the Asian block will be in position to threaten "economic sanctions" on the US. After all, even the flu-shot vaccine will soon be Asian made.

My beloved country USA will be left with rhetoric as the only means to apply influence arround the world.

Open source will not help us that much because already, M$'s influence is already on the decline at least in Asia.

Where is America's edge left?

Re:Until the local population...

[didiken]

>Until the local population develops respect
>for intellectual property, I don't expect much
>to happen...

Are you referring to your friends happily running Kazaa downloading tunes in USA/Canada as well?

Re:tech? in hk?

[AtomicBomb]

The cyberport is pretty meaningless to me. There may be a need of better connected building for IT companies... But, the value added is minimal.

In my opinion, the Hongkong Science Park [hkstp.org] is probably a smarter idea. I have friends working over there (IC design). Many firms are small start-up. Usually the access to top end equipments and chip design software are the main obstacle to them. The science park bought a bunch of tools and hire to them. In terms of software, the startups only need to drop a fiber cable to the main server room and billed by the hourly usage. The main difference is the boss... The chief of the Science Park was the local Motorola semiconductor director. Apparently, he knows what he is doing...