DuBiotech is a science park in Dubai and part of TECOM investments, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding. The importance of this signal is the desire to incorporate not merely a knowledge-based infrastructure, but a full-on manufacturing based infrastructure as well. This approach will result in demand for employment at all levels of education, not just post-graduate. Perhaps this is a signal of an U.A.E. strategy to integrate manufacturing in order to attract the local workforce as well.

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.