Academic Purple Economy

An internationally competitive North-east Tobago UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve university, focusing on applied sciences within a sustainable development framework, provides significant, continued, and resilient socio-economic benefits to Tobago.

As of 2023, there is no tertriary academic institution established within the North-east Tobago UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve. However, the establishment of an internationally competitive academic institution, offering at least Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, should be part of developing a striving purple economy, based on the renewable resource of human intellectual creativity. 

• Economic and socio-cultural uplift through diversification,

• local education and employment of experts in sustainable development,

• research-based solutions for local problems, and

• improved and diversified provision of goods and services.

• Conducting an initial rapid feasibility study, followed by the

• preparation of an investment prospectus; and

• negotiating and closing the deal with interested academic institutions.

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