The phrase "a novel step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an innovative or new approach to a problem or situation.
Example: "Implementing a remote work policy was a novel step for our company, leading to increased productivity."
Alternatives: "an innovative approach" or "a new measure".
However, two Cambridge students have taken a novel step to resolve the problem.
In 2013, the Parks Department took a novel step toward solving the riddle of desire lines.
A novel step sequence planning (SSP) method for biped-walking robots is presented.
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Activation of glutamatergic neurotransmission by ketamine: a novel step in the pathway from NMDA receptor blockade to dopaminergic and cognitive disruptions associated with the prefrontal cortex.
The Alliance Premier League, as the top non-league division was known at the time, had taken a novel step in an attempt to stimulate more attacking play.
The result is a novel step-wise approach to understanding the hierarchical memory performance of scientific applications.
The calibration protocol consists of a novel step-wise Monte Carlo based calibration of the subset of influential parameters.
With a delicate recursive handling procedure of the non-vanishing nonlinearities, the mismatched disturbances are compensated in a novel step-by-step way.
A novel, step-by-step spreadsheet modeling approach is also presented for circulating tracers in any ecological system, including any favorite system an ecologist might dream up while sitting at a computer.
Furthermore, we propose a novel step-by-step design methodology to tune prognostic algorithm hyper-parameters, which allows to guarantee that obtained results do not violate fundamental precision bounds.
