Meaning of blue-sky in English

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Is it not true that people in this country need to continue to promote blue-sky research rather than market research?
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In order to conduct blue-sky research in universities, we needed massive investment.
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There are problems in obtaining backing for any blue-sky research.
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I hope that we will concentrate our funding not only on scientific applications but also on blue-sky research.
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I am not even sure that there has been any blue-sky thinking—we are just feeling our way and seeing what fits and docs not.
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We can never predict where blue-sky research will lead, but it must take place because amazing things can come out of it.
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That is where we have ended up, with all research harnessed to narrow instead of blue-sky projects.
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Some can and must conduct blue-sky research.
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One of my constituents has conducted lengthy blue-sky research and translated his findings into a piece of educational technology that may well revolutionise language teaching in this country.
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We are right to talk about the fears for blue-sky research in a system that sometimes seems to place too much emphasis on process and not enough on discovery.
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The yoke is referred to the cattle-breeding and the agriculture, the red to the mountains rich in porphyry and the azure to the blue-sky.
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The snow is more generalized than the blue-sky sprites or worms seen in the blue field entoptic phenomenon.
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Because of the inherently uncertain return on investment, blue-sky projects are politically and commercially unpopular and tend to lose funding to more reliably profitable or practical research.
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I have wondered once or twice what people will make of this debate in five years' time, when the blue-skies idea has moved on.
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We need blue-skies research, and it must be publicly funded.
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Translations of blue-sky

in Chinese (Traditional)
不切實際的, 不賺錢的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
不切实际的, 不赚钱的…
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