Intralink Insights

A vibrant market for 5G telecom services is starting to emerge in markets with advanced telecoms infrastructure — and nowhere are the opportunities more significant than in Korea, a country leading the world in the field.

At RSNA 2018 in Chicago last week, 150 companies were demonstrating some form of AI technology according to one estimate. I was left with the impression that early commercial adoption of the latest wave of AI/ML diagnostic technologies has begun and startups in this space need to begin factoring Asia into their global expansion plans.

One of the questions we’re most often asked by western business people considering expanding into Asia is: how would we go about getting money out of China?

There’s a great deal of interest in blockchain technologies, and the UK has developed into Europe’s foremost hub for innovation in this field, attracting serious interest from Japanese investors and corporates.

The consumer-facing fintech sector had a relatively late start in South Korea, but is rapidly growing now. This is opening up a wealth of opportunities for western companies which can provide complementary technologies and services - as long as they’re savvy enough to take the right approach to the Korean market.

China’s State Council recently cemented its demarcation of the southern tropical island of Hainan — often labelled ‘China’s Hawaii’ — as a pilot zone for international medical business.