The phrase "avoid innovation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing strategies or approaches that discourage or do not prioritize new ideas or advancements.
Example: "In an effort to maintain stability, the company decided to avoid innovation and focus on refining existing products."
Alternatives: "steer clear of innovation" or "refrain from innovation".
From the point of view for another researcher who was interviewed, "UNIRIO is a not an innovative institution; traditionally its reaction is to avoid modifications, is to avoid innovation".
Panel members said the goal of accurate lie detection was not impossible but that polygraph science tended to avoid innovation and rely on antiquated physiological signs.
Dedicated, ambitious workers tell me they are so afraid of making a mistake that they feel it's safer for their careers to avoid innovation and initiative.
So when do you want to avoid innovation?
But if they want to avoid innovation-stifling interference, they'll have to do what the internet industry failed to do in its own rise: build in security and privacy to the products, not bolt them on later.
Intuit's efforts have made friends from the most tech-savvy members of Congress, including Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (CrunchGov Grade: A) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CrunchGov Grade: A). "Government should avoid impeding innovation in the private sector because commercial innovation almost entirely occurs in the private sector," wrote former Lofgren to her colleagues in 2005.
But while he vowed that the labs would be encouraged to be entrepreneurial, critics warned that it would be hard to avoid hampering innovation with bureaucracy.
Third, rules about what, where and how schools teach should be relaxed though not abandoned to avoid stifling innovation and discouraging newcomers with big ideas.
So how can big companies avoid becoming innovation laggards?
The dual goals of any securities regulatory regime are to 1) protect investors (especially unsophisticated, mom-and-pop investors) and 2) avoid deterring innovation.
Caution should be observed in requiring authoritative referencing for every notion, partly because of the unsatisfying infinite regress in searching for ultimate sources, and partly to avoid squashing innovation.
