Can Hong Kong try to copy Silicon Valley’s ways to create more technopreneurs?

Tech startup veterans underline missing elements for Hong Kong off the back of finance chief Paul Chan’s visit to US. — SCMP

The group of Hong Kong visitors to Novoloop, a startup in Silicon Valley’s Menlo Park, cannot miss the sneaker placed on a laboratory bench alongside test tubes and machinery.

Describing the company’s progress, chief executive and climate tech entrepreneur Miranda Wang said it took years of research to turn hard-to-recycle plastic waste into a sturdy new material, thermoplastic polyurethane.