The centers would leverage existing regional advantages by pursuing research and commercialization activities organized around themes that are largely determined by the private market.
On both the glowing-success and the looming-chasm side, this echoes many of the themes we at Pike Research have been pointing out over the last year, including in this blog on the so-called cleantech bust.
He said one of the themes which was emerging from the research was the necessity of working with mainstream schools to bring their attention to the needs of Muslim children.
"We expect regional development and urbanization, industrial upgrading, fostering small and medium enterprise development to be some of the main themes, " she wrote in a research note.
My research for It Was a Very Good Year found two themes that linked most of those years: (a) either the economy or the market started off at a depressed level and (b) an easing of credit boosted stock prices.
He recently called for "more research on how to strengthen the construction, operation and management of the Internet and promote mainstream online themes".