The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the HKSAR in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong's competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Communications Technologies; Integrated Circuits and Systems; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies, and Trust and AI Technologies. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, Re-Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.
Over the years, ASTRI has nurtured a pool of research, I&T talents and received numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations as well as outstanding business and community contributions. To date, ASTRI has transferred over 1250 technologies to the industries and been granted more than 1000 patents in the Mainland, the US, and other countries.