People can work wonders without a room. Rooms make people think within a box,
and people who are not confined within a room can wonder while thinking and solve problems
as they see them in the environment. The dearth in the growth of professionals trained in the
neurosciences who will use neurotechnology in the future is a dire situation facing Malaysia,
according to the Academy of Sciences Malaysia’s 2017 Emerging Science, Engineering and
Technology (ESET) study. Further, this human resource needs to be fundamentally cultivated
at schools from a very young age. The author describes the activities that have taken place in
the country via a bottom-up approach over the last two years and hopes that eventually these
endeavours will end with the creation of an ASEAN Brain, Mind, Behaviour and Neuroscience
Institute for Creativity and Innovation being established with the full support of the Government of
Malaysia or other local and international financial donors.