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- adjective
unrealistic orimpractical - adjective Of no immediate
practical application ;theoretical
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Yet, it is this early stage blue-skies work that the rest of the chain for economic growth in the scientific sector is predicated upon.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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The pressure, from government, limited partners and venture funds, in the current economic climate to seek safe returns on any investment of public or private funds combined with the complexity of scientific developments and the expertise needed to judge their future commercial value has led to an ever-increasing gap in the market for the funding of complex blue-skies innovative thinking that solves problems for people and planet.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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Yet, the funds themselves are also less likely to invest in early-stage scientific ventures, partly because of limited partner's reluctance to do so, but partly also because venture capitalists may not be fully ready and able to rise to the challenges of untangling the intricacy that investing in scientific ventures in their notional, blue-skies stage of development.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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In other words, governments need to decide whether to make a strategic investment in blue-skies research and in their own futures as countries where science that is about people and planet can flourish.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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Yet, it is this early stage blue-skies work that the rest of the chain for economic growth in the scientific sector is predicated upon.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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Early-stage investment funds, however, do not in themselves answer the question of who invests in blue-skies research, but they can make it a more promising and less daunting venture by helping to contribute to a faster and more reliable idea-to-market process.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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In an overall difficult economic situation, cuts by governments in the area of blue-skies research and less funding available from corporates have created an environment in which the funding of science that is not immediately of commercial value is seen as unnecessary, imprudent, and wasteful.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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That program has been dubbed "Gorgon Stare", but it doesn't compare to the future 92-camera Argus program whose initial development is being funded by the Pentagon's blue-skies outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Early-stage investment funds, however, do not in themselves answer the question of who invests in blue-skies research, but they can make it a more promising and less daunting venture by helping to contribute to a faster and more reliable idea-to-market process.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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Still, governments must not abdicate their responsibility and will need to decide if they are willing and able to step up and commit to creating an environment where blue-skies thinking is supported -- with direct investment and concrete incentives for the private sector to invest in notional work before its commercial value is fully tested.
Lucy P. Marcus: A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding Lucy P. Marcus 2011
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