Hong Kong emerges as Asia’s top hub for start-up potential, ranks fifth worldwide: study

Hong Kong leads Asia in high-growth start-up potential and ranks fifth globally, showing the city’s growing strength in nurturing scalable ventures and unicorns, according to joint research published by technology market intelligence firm CB Insights and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation.

The white paper, released on Monday, said Asia operated on a distributed network where distinct markets specialised in different stages of the technology life cycle, unlike Silicon Valley’s...