Abstract
While Asian governments are increasing their budgets for research and development (R&D), most financial outlays are mainly in applied areas in engineering, science, technology, and infrastructural fields. Although the ‘soft’ areas of R&D in social, cultural, economic, and political sciences have traditionally been relegated to university research centers, they are now gaining traction in private sector institutions and government-backed national think tanks. Given the many challenges Asian communities face (inequality of wealth, poverty, food insecurity, unemployment, domestic political instability, etc.) the importance of social and cultural R&D is likely to grow and become influential in shaping national and geopolitical policies in future.
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