The phrase "adapted ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to concepts or thoughts that have been modified or changed from their original form to fit a new context or purpose.
Example: "The project was based on adapted ideas from previous research, allowing us to innovate while building on established knowledge."
Alternatives: "modified concepts" or "revised thoughts".
The Martin Aerodynamic adapted ideas from the aero pioneer Paul Jaray.
Its title, in Bengali, was "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?," and it adapted ideas from his new book, a primer on cosmology.
In the "Greensward" plan you can see how Olmsted and Vaux adapted ideas from Repton, Ruskin and other Romantics to fit an urban environment.
He adapted ideas garnered from the then-current Romantic literatures in order to extend American libertarianism and individualism beyond the political and religious spheres to those of social and personal life.
The latter three groups adapted ideas used in the example because it was composed by altering the base (partially altered).
Second, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., who popularized the term 'landscape architecture,' adapted ideas from especially English estate designs for North American urban parks.
Surely there is no crime in creating Halloween costumes, horror movies and Broadway musicals that freely adapt ideas from Shelley's book.
Daniel Koretz, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, noted that improvements in teaching were seldom linear, but took several years of adapting ideas to a teacher's style and classroom circumstances.
Smith, adapting ideas explored in Barrington Levy's recent hit Under Mi Sensi, laid down a set of lyrics professing his love for skinny marijuana cigarettes and his disapproval of the harder drug cocaine.
What can you borrow or how can you adapt ideas from other places to your needs?
Forbes.com: Is China moving past its reputation as a country that develops and adapts ideas instead of innovating?
