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General |
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All applicants shall engage in creativity intensive businesses, with design related activities as listed in paragraph 2a.? An applicant should engage at least 50% of space and manpower in design related activities; the remaining percentage can be used for headquarters functions, such as financial control, marketing and administration.? Special individual cases to be considered on their own merits by the CEO. |
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An applicant’s primary operation in the InnoCentre should not be in the retail business or solely engaged in marketing or used as business office and/or engaged in mass production, although small scale pilot production or high value-added production in support of product and market development and innovation may be permitted. |
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An applicant’s operation in the InnoCentre should undertake an ethical, professional and environmentally friendly business, capable of operating in a studio/office environment and should be engaged in activities which do not handle hazardous or obscene materials.
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An applicant’s operation in the InnoCentre must contribute to the long term economic success of Hong Kong through the development, enhancement and/or application of innovation. |
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companies engaged in the following design activities are acceptable (this list is by no means exhaustive): |
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- Business-style in fit/form/functions
- Advertising
- Architecture/designs
- Branding
- Communication/Graphics
- Industrial/Product design
- Fashion/Textile
- Jewelry design
- Visual and media arts
- Packaging
- Strategic design consulting/Service design/Sustainable design
- Academic/training of human resources on designs
- Multimedia/Film/Digital entertainment
- Spatial design (architecture, cybertecture, interior, etc)
- Others to be determined on the individual basis by the CEO
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Inward investing companies who wish to start up and/or expand in Hong Kong and plan to engage in activities listed in 2a are welcome. |
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Priority will be given to companies as follow: |
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Companies are market leaders (actual or potential) engage in design activities as specified in paragraph 2a
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Companies have a long-term commitment to building innovation and/or creativity competence in Hong Kong through investment in people and intellectual property
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Companies would provide a significant number of high value-added innovation jobs locally
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Companies would contribute to strengthen the design capabilities in Hong Kong |
