The phrase "advance to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing progress or moving forward in order to foster growth or improvement.
Example: "In order to achieve our goals, we must advance to develop new strategies that will enhance our productivity."
Alternatives: "move forward to create" or "progress to enhance".
In a seminar setting, one has the opportunity to prepare in advance, to develop audiovisual aids, and to set out a logical argument for your audience.
Let's bring people together in advance, to develop a blueprint for R&D for future high-impact pathogens.
That plan included an additional $180 million advance to develop content for its Windows 8 devices — which Nook has been doing.
The application of LAMP on boiled swab samples is an interesting advance to develop a simple and rapid (point-of-care) diagnostic method for CL [ 40, 41].
Similarly, it would be a great advance to develop an algorithm that could identify and remove read buildups that correspond to PCR amplification bias without collapsing "biological" duplicate reads – especially as the latter will be common in newer datasets with very high sequencing depth.
The new missile "may represent a substantial advance to developing" an ICBM, said John Schilling, a missile expert, in an analysis posted on 38 North, a United States-based website that specializes in North Korea.
I believe Src is about to become an important target in the fight against cancer, mostly because our drug-development technology has become sufficiently advanced to develop compounds that can effectively block it.
It was from these basic designs that scientists advanced to develop the modern nuclear arsenal that, if ever utilized, would make its predecessors seem like firecrackers.
These 206 BC1F2 plants were selfed to obtain their BC1F3 seeds and further advanced to develop qDTY MRQ74 PLs.
So when her students approached her later that year with the idea of entering a university-sponsored business plan competition, parlaying the lab's nanotechnology advances to develop reagents for cancer research and diagnosis, Winter perked up.
They are one of the most fashionable advances to develop the oral bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs [ 76].
