I know this is wide idea, but can we have the 5th University in the North? Somewhere around the huge empty land near Sambangwang, facing the sea.
I will start with some justifications:
1) North has many low income old people, the University can specialize in low-cost elder care research. Technology should be used to lower the cost of health care, but we need to invest to train the people and invent the stuff.
2) North has a very long coastal line, the University can specialize in "green research": to keep a nice tropical biodiversity inside a city, and port that into a town, a building complex.
3) Vertical farming. Maybe one day we don't trust the food from China, the pork from Malaysia. ... or simply we can just find a way to produce quality food cheaper. I still find we are wasting majority of the energy from the hot Sun.
I am opening up for the forum to throw in other wide ideas. We don't want another duplication of universities, we want a university with its own frontier research for the next century: research focusing on how to give people happy life, not on how to make useless paper money.
Thanks,
Richard
Disclosure of potential conflict of interests: I was a university lecturer and now stay in North.