But enabling talent, collaboration and creativity to flourish is difficult when state support for higher education is being reduced so dramatically.
Beyond this, the agreement enables talent agencies to open the door for the first time to investors, who could range from advertising agencies to Internet companies.
Its first mistake may have been to be too generous — it fully vested every Lotus employee's stock options at the time of the acquisition, which enabled talent to leave.
That latter point is important because in women's football foreign players remain a less familiar sight than they do in the men's game and, despite the club being the first in the FAWSL to train full-time, there was much pondering over whether Liverpool could overcome language barriers and enable the talent to bond.
He added: "You need the quirky, underground leftfield innovative spaces that really do enable new talent to find its niche.
"Through HTC Vive, we look forward to enabling global talent to create interesting and compelling content and to help shape the future of this industry".
And, perhaps more lofty, the Danish startup wants to make the beautiful game more meritocratic by enabling unsigned talent to be discovered by professional football clubs through the app, and in turn help the soccer industry become more accountable.
Cisco's Leadership Fellows Program enables top talent leaders defined as self-motivated, high-performing and high-potential vice presidents and directors to work with a nonprofit organization for up to one year and then return to their former position, inspired, rejuvenated and armed with enhanced leadership skills.
And in so doing they can play their part to enable those whose talent lies with research to have the best facilities and environment for their work.
It is the case that each individual has within themself immense talents and that our education system will, and should, be judged by how well it enables those talents to be fulfilled, to use what has become a cliché, for the many and not the few.
