ADJECTIVE
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without immediate commercial value
the company cannot afford to do blue-sky research
How To Use blue-sky In A Sentence
- Action against public disorder should be among the basic policies of any government, taken as a matter of course rather than celebrated as the result of blue-sky thinking.
- The startups being acquired now have real technology to offer - and buyers have real needs, not just blue-sky visions.
- You know, the ones where a bunch of people are told to sit down and talk about things on a blue-sky basis brainstorm (yes, people still use the word ‘brainstorm’ seriously).
- This could be because these latter companies concentrate more on traditional product and process innovation rather than blue-sky innovation.
- I didn't say that, I was just wondering if you were doing any blue-sky. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
- The cause and symptom of this is failure to tell - and face - the dreadful truth: this failure pervades many of the news reports and much of the commentary we read, and reinforces the blue-sky world that many want to exist.
- There is a lack of funding for blue-sky research.
- He is also trying to change the perception of spin-outs, which are more commonly associated with university boffins trying to commercialise blue-sky research.
- But most party platforms are collections of blue-sky promises with few details and little indication of how they will be paid for.
- Equally, the market doesn't always know what it needs and blue-sky research will continue to produce many of the most successful technologies from a commercial viewpoint.