Meaning & use
valorisation
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Meanings
noununcountablefinance
The act of fixing or raising the price or value of a product, often through government action.
Grammar: Often followed by of: the valorisation of coffee.
Patterns
- the valorisation of something
Brazil's valorisation of coffee in the early 1900s was an attempt to stabilize prices.
The government tried valorisation of wheat to protect farmers.
Economists criticized the valorisation plan as costly.
noununcountablebusiness
The process of turning research, waste or knowledge into something useful or valuable, especially for business.
Grammar: Common in EU research and sustainability documents.
Patterns
- valorisation of something
The university set up an office for the valorisation of its research.
Valorisation of food waste can create animal feed and energy.
Project teams must plan for the valorisation of results.
Common combinations
- valorisation of research
- The valorisation of research helps start-ups.
- waste valorisation
- Waste valorisation turns scraps into new products.
- knowledge valorisation
- Knowledge valorisation links labs and industry.
- price valorisation
- Price valorisation schemes support farmers.
- valorisation strategy
- The institute published a valorisation strategy.
Synonyms and how they differ
- commercialization
- This stresses turning something into a product to sell, while valorisation can include social or environmental value.
- exploitation
- In research contexts this means making practical use of results, but in general English it can sound negative.
- price support
- This is the plain term for government help with prices, while valorisation is a more technical term.
Opposites
Word family
- valorise verb
- to raise the value of something or put it to use
- valour noun
- great courage, from the same Latin root
- valorization noun
- American spelling of valorisation
- value noun
- worth or importance
Commonly confused: valorisation or valuation?
valorisation vs valuation
Valuation is an estimate of what something is worth, while valorisation is the process of raising or realising its value.
Practice
The project team wrote a plan for the ___ of its findings, so that companies could use them.
Choose one answer.
Valorisation means making research results useful and valuable. Evaluation is judging quality, validation is confirming accuracy, and devaluation is reducing worth.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “valorisation”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.