Innovate or Die﹣the Fate & Future of Hong Kong-owned PRD Factories

By Prof Naubahar Sharif

Division of Social Science

Date:	12 Mar 2014

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong.

Remarks:	Seats are limited and first-come-first-served. Registration starts one month before the talk.

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Increasingly, Guangdong-based Hong Kong manufacturers find themselves between a rock and a hard place: hemmed in by the global recession and new policies of China which drive up the cost of imported raw materials and labor costs in new employee benefits. Global eco-friendly trends and a stronger Chinese currency also conspire to eliminate most of the cost advantages of operating in Guangdong. These Hong Kong-owned firms now face either a total shut-down or relocation to remoter regions. But hope comes in the form of innovation and R&D, conducted either independently or in collaboration with Mainland China partners.

Prof Naubahar Sharif
Division of Social Science

Naubahar Sharif is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science at HKUST. With a Ph.D. from Cornell University, he subsequently completed the Executive Education Program in Innovation and Economic Development at Harvard. With numerous articles in leading journals to his credit, his research interests include the emergence and development of the innovation systems conceptual approach. Locally, he studies university-industry linkages, the role of innovation/technology in Hong Kong, and economic and innovation-related linkages between Hong Kong and Guangdong. He is also the teacher of Asia’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).