The phrase "adapt ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of modifying or adjusting concepts to fit different contexts or needs.
Example: "In order to create a successful marketing strategy, we need to adapt ideas from previous campaigns to better suit our target audience."
Alternatives: "modify concepts" or "adjust thoughts".
Surely there is no crime in creating Halloween costumes, horror movies and Broadway musicals that freely adapt ideas from Shelley's book.
The FOI approach to innovation brings together researchers, practitioners, and community members in order to develop, implement, test, and adapt ideas.
This month's edition of Ideas for E.L.L's celebrates the holidays — Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's, even winter break — but, of course, just as you can pick, choose and adapt ideas from previous posts in this series, much of what we suggest below can be taught any time of year.
What can you borrow or how can you adapt ideas from other places to your needs?
To prove this, we adapt ideas from [40, Theorem 3.4, (vi) (Rightarrow ) (v)] (see also [40]) in the context of groups and metric spaces to the algebraic setting.
I encourage interested groups especially those at schools, museums, libraries, nature centers, and other institutions to adapt ideas from our organization to fit their own circumstances and to start planning their own Darwin Days for the celebration of Darwin's 200th birthday in 2009.
The Martin Aerodynamic adapted ideas from the aero pioneer Paul Jaray.
Readers accustomed to adapting ideas in House & Garden to their own homes found Wintour's HG impossible.
My research focuses on adapting ideas from machine learning to statistical problems that arise in scientific applications.
By adapting ideas originally suggested by Wada and Liou [SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 18 (1997) 633] for the Euler equations, we suggest a mechanism for removing numerical dissipation.
Its title, in Bengali, was "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?," and it adapted ideas from his new book, a primer on cosmology.
