The phrase "a source of industry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that contributes to or generates industrial activity or economic production.
Example: "The new technology has become a source of industry, driving innovation and job creation in the region."
Alternatives: "a driver of industry" or "a contributor to industry".
"I've driven that road too many times to count, but perhaps this does sum up the contrast and complexity of the northern landscape... a beautiful landscape, beneath which lies a source of industry and power... which made the landscape and the communities of today", Rowatt.
That's right, vaginas are a source of industry and commerce -- therefore vaginas are a source of power and people want to control, direct, and own power sources because that makes them wealthy AND important.
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The high cost of cable sports, from YES to ESPN, has been a source of widespread industry discontent and led Cox Cable's top executive, James O. Robbins, to suggest that he would drop ESPN and its other services if the steep price for renewing its contracts were not scaled back.
First, Spain, which was a leading source of industry growth, experienced a major economic downturn in early 2010 and thus sharply scaled back its investment in turbines.
However, the coal mining industry in the watershed began to lose value around this time, coal mining was no longer a significant source of industry in the Nescopeck Creek watershed by 1936.
University knowledge transfer, which contains both codified and non-codified knowledge, is an important source of industry innovativeness.
Pressure on the Yangtze as a source of water for industry, homes, farming, energy and shipping has mounted amid one of the region's worst droughts in decades.
One prominent explanation for the downturn in the music business, piracy, is an unintended consequence of what has been a source of the entertainment industry's perennial hopes, technology.
The third bill, from Mr. Hastings himself, would fast-track federal approval of drilling permits, roads and pipelines in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve, a 23-million-acre reserve rich in both wildlife and fossil fuels and long a source of contention between industry and conservationists.
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