A Perspective on the Changing Nature of R&D Investment and Collaboration in the Asian-Pacific.

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.