India’s higher-education minister has offered more details on the nation’s plans to create 14 “innovation universities,” which are meant to be model institutions and help India become a global hub for education. Each of the new institutions will have different governance and research structures and will work to solve a variety of pressing social issues, such as hunger, poverty, and diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, through cutting-edge technology, said the minister, Kapil Sibal, according to the Business Standard newspaper. The institutions will also emphasize social sciences and the liberal arts, he said. The innovation universities have attracted interest from American institutions. Yale University, for example, reportedly has said it wants to serve as a mentor to the new institutions.