The phrase "a drive to identify" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing motivation or determination to recognize or determine something, often in a professional or analytical context.
Example: "The research team has a drive to identify the underlying causes of climate change."
Alternatives: "a motivation to discover" or "an urge to recognize".
A drive to identify "perceptual categories" doesn't quite satisfy in this regard.
Their mission, at this meeting, was to organize a drive to identify Obama supporters among voters registered as independents and persuade them to change their registrations so they could vote in Pennsylvania's "closed" Democratic primary.
One initiative is a drive to identify the groups most at-risk, including people with serious mental health problems who are repeatedly in contact with the police and who could be directed, earlier on, to more appropriate services.
As the incidence of pancreatic cancer (PaCa) continues to increase worldwide with little improvement in the overall prognosis, there is a drive to identify alternative strategies for the treatment of PaCa to prolong patient survival.
This manifested in a drive to identify structural and local aspects of vulnerability.
With this massive amount of data publicly available, there will be a drive to identify the factors that predict trustworthiness, which can ultimately lead to social profiling using big data analytics tools.
9 There is now a policy drive to identify undiagnosed COPD. 10 11 However, a systematic review of population-based screening with spirometry concluded that this should not be recommended, partly because it estimated that hundreds of smokers would need to be screened to prevent a single COPD exacerbation.
There is a continual drive to identify markers that will aid in predicting prognosis and response to therapy of breast carcinomas.
In view of the clinical burden and cost associated with surveillance of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, there is an increasing drive to identify more reliable urinary biomarkers.
There needs to be a clearly communicated drive to identify and solve issues that have led to patients receiving sub-standard levels of care over a long period of time.
"So now is a time for change, now is a time for informed review, and now is a time to refocus on our drive to identify those who knowingly cheat their fellow competitors".
