The phrase "a budding industry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an industry that is in its early stages of development and showing potential for growth.
Example: "The renewable energy sector is a budding industry that is attracting significant investment and interest from entrepreneurs."
Alternatives: "an emerging industry" or "a growing industry".
Following the trajectories of past significant innovations in scientific instruments, nanoscopy has spread into other branches of research, generated improvements and variations, and stimulated a budding industry.
And if the experience of being high isn't pleasant – which will likely be the case for someone who unintentionally eats THC-infused goods – it shouldn't be used as an argument to undo the legalisation of cannabis or to impose excessive regulations on a budding industry.
The result, fuelled by hundreds of millions in venture-capital investments, is a budding industry of food futurism that blends the utopianism of Silicon Valley's culture with the quackery of Dr. Oz-approved "superfoods" and the idea that you can live forever if you just eat enough pomegranate seeds.
Aereo is part of a budding industry of start-ups trying to figure out ways consumers can watch TV online.
As technology improved, filmmakers were able to make multi-reel films and entrepreneurs were able to justify building movie palaces to support a budding industry around this new form of entertainment.
But coal defenders like Rep. David McKinley, a West Virginia Republican who represents Lawrenceville, have argued that even EPA's weaker draft regulations threatened the coal mining at the heart of his state's economy, as well as a budding industry that makes use of some coal ash components in construction materials.
Luxembourg, the teeny little European nation, intends to become a hub for a new budding industry: asteroid mining.
After a lengthy investigation into the budding industry — and ahead of a big Facebook initial public offering — it's going after two stealthy financial groups as well as popular private market SharesPost.
With Google TV, the company wants to be a leader in the budding industry of Internet-connected television sets, which Forrester expects to be in 43 million United States homes by 2015, up from two million this year.
A graduate of Harvard with a bachelor's in economics, Ms. Dyson began her career in the computer world in the 1970's, covering the budding industry as a reporter for Forbes magazine.
A recent story about the budding industry in the China Daily warned of "grave maintenance and management challenges" and the existence of unscrupulous users who damaged or disappeared with the bikes.
