As a result of the summer 2012 business mission to China and Hong Kong by Barcelona‘s Mayor, Xavier Trias, the Barcelona City Council and the Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Parks Corporation (香 港 科 技 園) have created the Barcelona Smart City Campus to promote the landing of the most innovative Catalan companies in the Chinese market.
The signature of the agreement for the creation of the Barcelona Smart City Campus by the Third Deputy Mayor of the Barcelona City Council, Antoni Vives, and the President of the Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Parks Corporation, Nicholas Brooke, took place in the Barcelona City Hall on March 8th, 2013, in the presence of the Vice-Rector for International Policy of the Catalonia Politechnical University (UPC), Prof. Pedro Díez.
The Barcelona City Council and the Catalonia Politechnical University will elaborate a business development program to attract the most innovative Catalan proposals to the Barcelona Smart City Campus, located in Hong Kong. The task of the Catalonia Politechnical University, through its Innovation and Research Park, will consist in selecting the Catalan start-up companies created less than two years ago that will be allowed to establish themselves in the Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Park, where they will take part in the business incubation programs Incu-Tech, Incu-Bio and Incu-Apps.
Apart from the creation of this program, the agreement is also aimed at creating new business opportunities in both regions, at stimulating the exchange of innovative business initiatives and at promoting entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and economic growth.
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Signature of the Barcelona Smart City Campus (from the UPC website)[/caption]
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