To help five research and development (R&D) centres of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government promote their projects and explore business opportunities, an "Innovation and Technology Commission Pavilion" was set up by Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) at the first SmartBiz Expo held from December 6 to 8 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This ITC Pavilion marked the finale of "InnoTech Month 2017" starting from September 30.

Standards and Calibration Laboratory (SCL) has developed new calibration services in luminance and optical wavelength, to support the testing and certification industry in Hong Kong. In November 2017, these two new calibration services were successfully assessed by the Hong Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS) with overseas peer reviewer Mr Huang Xue-bo, Principal Metrologist of the National Metrology Centre (NMC), Singapore.