"activate research" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to initiating an investigation or a study. For example: "We need to activate research into alternative sources of energy if we are to find a solution to this issue."
Recent concern over human-induced climate warming has activated bioclimatic research projecting the species-response to climate change scenarios.
These problems have activated the research programs in order to improve the performance of window-air-conditioners by enhancing heat transfer rate in the condenser.
We believe this study is useful for the influence maximization problem and possibly activates further research and potential applications of community in social networks.
As discussed above, the emergence of suPAR as a potential factor has certainly activated this research field.
To ensure concealment of allocation, randomisation was by an external, independent, web based randomisation service from a trials unit activated by research staff.
They allow us to shop, research, activate, change, transfer, call, watch, monitor, control, and so on, and we expect to be able to realize those tasks wherever and whenever we want – even remotely.
The population was identified through activated carbon market research reports (Table 2) [18, 32, 64 66].
Activating basic prevention research could immediately have a tremendous impact.
Using that data, the program assigned numbers that approximated the meaning of each individual word from the podcasts -- and, with some fancy number crunching, they figured out what areas of the brain were activated when their research subjects heard words with certain meanings.
When all sites are activated, the TOPGEAR research network will comprise approximately 75 centres spanning 15 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America.
