Affiliations: Socio-Technical Sciences, USA. E-mail: kboff@me.com
Abstract: The global leadership of science and technology appears to be
pivoting towards the Asian Pacific as measured by available funding, scientific
output, and growth of R&D infrastructure and professional workforce. The
emerging dynamics of this shift and its implications of this for future
strategic investment and collaboration between the US and Asian fundamental
science communities are addressed. In particular, this paper examines the
impact on sponsorship of foreign fundamental R&D by agencies of the US
government which has been of historic value to advancing the global state of
knowledge and technologies in a number of domains.
Keywords: R&D collaboration, Asian-Pacific R&D, basic science, US-Asian R&D collaboration, research support, US Department of Defense Sponsored R&D