0 using the imagination to think of ideas that do not yet have practical uses or make money:
1 ways of thinking about a subject or dealing with a problem that are new and original but may not always be practical:
What we need at the moment is specialist knowledge and implementation rather than blue-sky thinking.
Is it not true that people in this country need to continue to promote blue-sky research rather than market research?
In order to conduct blue-sky research in universities, we needed massive investment.
There are problems in obtaining backing for any blue-sky research.
I hope that we will concentrate our funding not only on scientific applications but also on blue-sky research.
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.
We can never predict where blue-sky research will lead, but it must take place because amazing things can come out of it.
That is where we have ended up, with all research harnessed to narrow instead of blue-sky projects.
Some can and must conduct blue-sky research.
