The report said the department had acknowledged that this was a technically high-risk project.

It typically supports high-risk projects with the potential to develop into successful businesses or license innovative new technologies.

The only losers would be the shareholders but they always knew this was a high-risk project.

Others are shying away altogether from high-risk exploratory projects.

We will not shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects because of short-term earnings pressure.

The high-risk project aims to create jobs for the economically depressed province.

A new Soviet bank has been created to finance high-risk scientific and engineering projects, the newspaper Pravda said last week.

Non-repayable grants will be reserved primarily for high-risk projects, which find it difficult to obtain loans.

Economic and monetary union is a high-risk project.

Economic and monetary union is a centralist, high-risk project with a weak democratic basis.