Annual Report 2015–16

u 陳瑞燕教授（左） Prof. Agnes Chan (left) 鄧慧蘭教授（右） Prof. Gladys Tang (right) * 學生創業計劃的例子，載於第 20 至 21 頁創業教育的部分 Please refer to pages 20–21 for examples of students’ start-up projects CUHK scholars’ intellectual efforts do not stop at the publication of the research findings but may continue to assume a new lease of life as programmes and products that enter the public arena and benefit its members. CUHK has been a pioneer in the transferring of technology with societal impact and entrepreneurship that bridges town and gown. The Pi Centre established in November 2014 provided the infrastructure and the necessary guidance and impetus to a number of student entrepreneurs with promise and helped their projects to emerge into external incubators.* Business incubation aside, the University also advocates knowledge transfer for social betterment and community engagement. To this end, the Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services (ORKTS) introduced in 2016 the ‘Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Project Fund’ (S-KPF) to enable some of the projects from the Knowledge Transfer Project Fund (KPF) to continue to envolve and develop into sustainable social enterprises for the benefit of the Hong Kong society. The new funding scheme had enabled Prof. Agnes Chan of the Department of Psychology and Prof. Gladys Tang of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies to form their companies under advisement of experienced social enterprise consultants. Professor Chan’s company, Pro-talent Association Limited, provides music neuropsychology training to autistic children to reduce the social stigma of autism. Professor Tang’s SLCO Community Resources Limited offers a wide range of sign bilingual education services for hearing impaired children and school-based professional support services to facilitate their overall development. The centre also strives to promote the integration of deaf and hearing students. 中大學者的學術工作不止於發表研 究發現，還會賦予這些成果新生命， 使之成為造褔大眾的項目和產品。 中大素來是轉移知識技術的先驅， 務求有用於社會，並創設聯繫學院 與社區的企業。 2014 年 11 月成立的 前期創業育成中心，為不少出色的學 生創業者提供基本設施和必要的指 導和激勵，協助他們的計劃進入校 外的創業培育基地。 * 除了支持創業，大學也提倡知識轉 移，促進社會福祉和社區聯繫。為推 動這方面的工作，研究及知識轉移 服務處在 2016 年推出「可持續知識 轉移基金」，令受惠「知識轉移項目 基金」的部分項目可以繼續發展成 可持續的社會企業。 心理學系的陳瑞燕教授和手語及聾 人研究中心的鄧慧蘭教授得到這項 新資助計劃協助，成立了各自的公 司，並獲富有經驗的社會企業顧問 提供意見。陳教授成立慧能培訓協 會有限公司，為患自閉症兒童提供音 樂心智培訓，並減少社會對自閉症 的謬見。鄧教授成立語橋社會資源 有限公司，為聽障兒童和學校專業人 士提供廣泛的手語雙語教育服務， 以促進聽障兒童的全面發展和聾健 共融。 化已知為實用技術 From Known to Know-how 35 精研憑格物 推陳以致知 Research—Pushing Knowledge Frontiers