President's Awards

The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer (KT) was established to recognise, encourage and reward individual academic staff members or teams for transferring University-owned knowledge, expertise, know-how, skills or technology to society through outstanding, innovative and/or profitable KT activities/practices/cases/projects that lead to economic or social improvements; and/or for the academic, professional, social and policy impact of their KT activities/practices/cases/projects on education in the local, regional or international community. The Award committee considers evidence of excellence in KT across a variety of contexts, as listed below. The aim of the Award is to honour established individual academic staff members or teams who have demonstrated excellence in KT in the 2 years preceding the Award.

A selection panel chaired by Professor Stephen CHEUNG Yan-leung, President considered the nominees (whether nominated by others or self-nominated) for the Award. The other members of the panel were Ms Imma LING (lay Council member), Professor Gerard A. POSTIGLIONE (external member from a higher-education institution), Professor LUI Tai-lok, Vice President (Research and Development), Professor Dennis CHENG Kat-hung (academic staff member elected by and from the Academic Board), Dr Stephen CHOW Cheuk-fai (Director of Knowledge Transfer) and Dr Celeste YUEN Yuet-mui (recipient of the previous Knowledge Transfer Award).

The selection panel used the following criteria to assess the nominees:

Success in securing competitive external KT grants/funding/donations/awards and implementing KT activities/practices/cases/projects in the capacity of Principal Investigator;

Quality and quantity of their KT output;

Transference of University-owned knowledge, expertise, know-how, skills or technology to society through outstanding KT activities/practices/cases/projects;

Evidence of innovation, profit and/or economic or social improvements generated by their KT activities; and

The academic, professional, social and policy impact of their KT activities on education in the local, regional or international community.