The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region established the Hong KongApplied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) in 2000 to capture the promises of technological advances for Hong Kong through applied research, and ASTRI began its operations in 2001. In April 2006, the Innovation and Technology Commission 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 to perform market leading-edge 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 to enhance Hong Kong's technological competitiveness on a continuous basis.
  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 technological groups - Communications Technologies, Consumer Electronics, IC Design and Opto-electronics.
  Our goals are to build teams of excellent researchers who conduct world-class research and create real economic impact by transferring the intellectual properties (IPs) they develop in customer-focused ways to our industry customers, continuously and in volume. The objectives will be nothing short of establishing ASTRI as Greater China's best and the most strategic R&D center in the technology domains we work in, and become a truly strategic asset that would enable Hong Kong to capture values from competitive technologies for years to come.
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