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- noun A loosely organized research and development
team or facility.
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Examples
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The search team set up a war room, hurriedly launching an effort dubbed the skunkworks.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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The search team set up a war room, hurriedly launching an effort dubbed the skunkworks.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Mark Pinheiro, head of the Cabinet Office's informal team of IT developers, known as the "skunkworks" team, has confirmed how keen they are to use small-scale cloud services for experimental projects – all good news for our SMEs.
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So a skunkworks is an especially enriched environment that is designed to help a small group of individuals escape usual organizational procedures, so that innovation is encouraged.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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Skunkworks Definition: A skunkworks is a group of people who, in order to achieve unusual results, work on a project in a way that is outside the usual rules.
It's Time to Revive the Great American Tradition of Skunkworks 2007
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A skunkworks is an especially enriched environment that is intended to help a small group of individuals design a new idea by escaping routine organizational procedures.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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A skunkworks is an especially enriched environment that is intended to help a small group of individuals design a new idea by escaping routine organizational procedures.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003
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Since Northrop Grumman increased their stake in Scaled Composites from 40% to 100% in 2007 and is in effect using it as their own nascent "skunkworks" and knows that the USAF is looking at a B1/B-2 bomber replacement -- they may be secretly developing an aircraft of this type in parallel with the Spaceship II effort ....
Space Plane Idea for Laug Haul Flights Resurrected by Virgin - NASA Watch 2009
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The Japanese giant set up a "skunkworks" design unit here in California with a bunch of young execs.
Tony Greenberg: Save the Entrepreneur -- Big Business Keeps Buying Startups, And Killing 'Em 2010
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The Japanese giant set up a "skunkworks" design unit here in California with a bunch of young execs.
Tony Greenberg: Save the Entrepreneur -- Big Business Keeps Buying Startups, And Killing 'Em 2010
yarb commented on the word skunkworks
See also skunk works, skunkwork.
August 14, 2008