A venture fund known as S.E.VEN (Social Equity Venture Fund) recently announced a novel competition for ideas to address an important issue in emerging economies: namely how to rate possible investment opportunities in potentially higher risk emerging economies. Their idea is to create an index to rate possible investments with the aim of increasing the flow of investment in these regions. While the aim of the competition is noble itself, what's most unique is HOW they will run the competition.

GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin recently published a set of seven "anticipations about a key-field of the world's intellectual production, i.e. the value of international academic degrees," degrees "endowed with an intellectual, scientific and commercial worth acknowledged worldwide." Their conclusions are extremely sobering for American higher education: