The phrase "adapting a concept" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of modifying or changing an idea to fit a new context or purpose.
Example: "The team is focused on adapting a concept from the original design to better suit our target audience."
Alternatives: "modifying an idea" or "altering a notion."
"But even with the latest technology it is still very hard to adapt a concept and make it photorealistic.
To guide the work in the small groups, we translated and adapted a concept of "reteaming", developed by Ben Furman and colleagues [ 21].
We have also adapted a new concept that reduces reliance on donor funding by ensuring that a group utilizes its local resources to promote business in their immediate environment.
The idea is to try to adapt a military concept that helped keep the world safe from nuclear bombings during the Cold War to the digital battlefield of the 21st century.
Moncton, an adjunct professor of physics and director of MIT's Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, says that Khaykovich first proposed the idea of adapting a 60-year-old concept for a way of focusing X-rays using mirrors to the challenge of building a high-performing neutron microscope.
It plans to put 30 people to work adapting a technology proof of concept, developed by chief technology officer Ely Sachs, to a six-inch, industry-standard silicon wafer.
In-situ SBM was designed based on on-slide SBM [14] which was adapted from a concept as reported by Nuovo et al [25].
Particular strengths of adapting an existing WHO responsiveness concept and measurement approach are noted first.
These results feed the debate on species boundaries in bacteria, on the strength of biological barriers to regulate DNA exchange, and confirm the difficulty to adapt a bacterial species concept that would be based on genomic coherence between members of a same species sharing an exclusive common gene pool [39].
