blue-sky
v.— «They couldn’t understand why we would pour money into such “harebrained blue-skying” instead of giving it to them to design yet another model of their ill-fated line of processors.» —“Nurturing of Corporate Research” by Richard S. Rosenbloom, Alan M. Kantrow Harvard Business Review Feb. 1, 1982. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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