The phrase "adapting ideas" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of modifying or adjusting concepts to fit new contexts or situations.
Example: "In our brainstorming session, we focused on adapting ideas from successful projects to enhance our own strategy."
Alternatives: "modifying concepts" or "adjusting thoughts".
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.
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.
Faculty rarely implement an innovation 'as is', usually adapting ideas to their unique environment, goals, personality, and more.
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.
He is adapting ideas he developed to describe networks of genes to problems in what seem to be very unrelated fields — like chip design and stock price volatility.
New concepts adapting ideas and knowledge from North American railroads are needed to prepare the European railroad systems for the future.
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.
Surely there is no crime in creating Halloween costumes, horror movies and Broadway musicals that freely adapt ideas from Shelley's book.
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.
