The phrase "ability to spur" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to motivate or encourage action or change.
Example: "Her ability to spur innovation within the team has led to several successful projects."
Alternatives: "capacity to inspire" or "talent for motivating".
By limiting the federal role so severely, Mr. Bush will hamper the government's ability to spur this important new area of medical research.
Mr. Navalny deftly sidestepped questions about his own political intentions, and his influence — including his ability to spur protesters to take to the streets — is difficult to measure.
However, in this one particular instance, I am willing to make an exception, because I believe that the mosque expansion is a positive good and has the ability to spur a great deal of introspection and progress among Muslims.
In his crowning volume, "Notes on a Century" (2012), his once-solid optimism about the future of the Arab world and the West's ability to spur restructuring seemed shaken.
These changes remove the features that have fostered innovation in the past and threaten the Internet's ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate.
Under the leadership of Mr. Bernanke — with considerable prodding and support from a board almost entirely appointed by President Obama — the central bank has gradually concluded that it has a responsibility to act more forcefully, and, equally important, that it has the ability to spur job creation directly.
Rubenstein's track record and Opcity's ability to scale spurred interest from top-tier investors and allowed them to close the largest Series A in recent Austin history.
Asked whether the central bank had been slow to react to the economic downturn in the euro zone when compared with the Federal Reserve's much more aggressive easing of interest rates, Mr. Duisenberg played down the ability of monetary policy to spur growth.
The authors conclude that reports of increased respiratory infections following eruptions may reflect an ability of volcanic ash to spur the growth of bacteria as well as interfere with innate immunity.
The contest is a bellwether of Google's ability to recruit talent and to spur uptake of Android, when it bows sometime in the second half of the year.
New research from MIT's Sloan School is challenging that view, citing the expanding ability of services in the United States to spur innovation and job growth.
