Hong Kong's future lies precariously wedged between the United States and China, and as the escalating fight between the two giants extends beyond trade into knowledge, the city's efforts to innovate could suffer quite considerably.
As New York University's Professor Thomas Sargent noted in his address at a forum in Zhuhai last month, a nation's growth is driven by three key things - capital, labour and knowledge.
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