How Hong Kong’s ITF umbrella supports technology adoption and R&D, with AI and robotics among its strategic focus areas.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
The Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) is Hong Kong’s umbrella technology fund, and AI sits among its strategic focus areas — but it is a family of programmes, not a single AI grant.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| What it is | Umbrella fund run by the Innovation and Technology Commission |
| Focus areas | Include AI and robotics, plus life/health tech and digitalisation |
| Categories | R&D, technology adoption, new industrialisation, talent, start-ups |
| Status | Open / active |
What the ITF is
The Innovation and Technology Fund, administered by the Innovation and Technology Commission, exists to raise Hong Kong’s technological level, productivity and competitiveness. It is organised into categories — supporting R&D, facilitating technology adoption, promoting new industrialisation, nurturing talent, and supporting start-ups — and its strategic focus areas explicitly include AI and robotics.
How AI projects fit
Different ITF programmes suit different needs: R&D programmes for genuine research, adoption-oriented programmes for deploying technology, and the New Industrialisation Funding Scheme for smart production lines. Note that the Technology Voucher Programme (TVP), Hong Kong’s best-known SME tech-adoption funding, stopped accepting new applications after 31 December 2024 — so it is not an active route for a new AI project, despite many older blogs still listing it.
How to start
Identify which ITF category matches your project and apply through the relevant programme page. Support levels, caps, eligibility and round status change — confirm the current details on the official programme page before relying on them. Important: these are programmes a business applies for directly with the relevant Hong Kong authority. dgm is an independent AI-integration agency — it is not a registered or approved vendor of any of these schemes (none of them operates a vendor registry), so nothing here implies dgm can secure or deliver a grant-funded engagement. dgm can help scope and build the AI project; eligibility, approval and any claim rest with you and the agency.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Hong Kong businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.