2023 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 210-218
Until recently, this author has been conducting "unexplored research" on rare and old manuscripts from the Himalayan region but has had little contact with society and has not been able to benefit society at large. It was thus "novel but seemingly useless unexplored research." However, through various efforts, he found that, depending on peculiar circumstances, the "novel but seemingly useless unexplored research" could be transformed into "novel and useful unexplored research" according to the following three ways:
(1) passively waiting for a change in the world situation to increase its value;
(2) actively promoting the product to increase its public recognition and interest; and
(3) creating impactful products and services by integrating science and technology.
This paper introduces a mechanism for enhancing the significance of unexplored research in the humanities and examples of R&D that integrate the humanities and sciences, such as a Buddhist chatbot (BuddhaBot) and a Buddhist metaverse (Teraverse).
