"Blue-sky research" nghĩa là gì?

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"Blue-sky research" Nghiên cứu trời xanh -> Nghiên cứu mà không được áp dụng hay có lợi ích thực tiễn và chỉ như một cái thùng rỗng đáy kéo dài mãi mãi và không biết khi nào hoàn thành.

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The EU's bold approach to funding such paradigm-shifting (chuyển đổi hệ thuyết, mô thức) blue-sky research leads once more to a success story.

It was a momentous (trọng yếu) feat in basic research, the curiosity-driven search for fundamental knowledge about the universe and the elements within it. Basic (or “blue-sky”) research is distinct from applied research, which is targeted toward developing or advancing technologies to solve a specific problem or to create a new product.

But if that hype is the only way they can get initial money in, then what option do they have? Mariana Mazzucato might be right in saying that government funding is the only feasible (khả thi) other option, but that would require politicians to be much more forward thinking and place more trust in what is disparagingly called “blue sky” research than they currently are willing to do. Proponents (người đề xướng) of asteroid (hành tinh nhỏ) mining (the ultimate in “blue sky”?) might be right that it’s the only feasible option for the human race to get its greedy hands on the elements needed to continue our technological lifestyles. But if that option lies decades or even centuries off, how are we ever going to reach it if finance only works in seven-year cycles?

Bin Kuan

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