Taking a historical view of the role of Hong Kong in the GBA, the city has been and will continue to be an important contributor to the regional ecosystem. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster ranks #1 globally in the WIPO Global Innovation Index 2025, contributing 2.4% of global academic Despite this, Hong Kong's and the GBA's per capita innovation output trails leading clusters such applications per 1,000 residents, compared to 3.8 in Cambridge and 4.2 in Silicon Valley. This gap Source: WIPO Statistics Database, May 2025.