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.
We need blue-skies research, and it must be publicly funded.
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.
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.
The snow is more generalized than the blue-sky sprites or worms seen in the blue field entoptic phenomenon.
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.
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.
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.
Some can and must conduct blue-sky research.
