The phrase "catalyze potential" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the idea of stimulating or enabling someone's or something's potential to develop or grow.
Example: "The new program aims to catalyze potential in young entrepreneurs by providing them with the necessary resources and mentorship."
Alternatives: "unlock potential" or "ignite potential."
For example, several countries have used natural resources (mineral and hydrocarbon resources) as a platform to catalyze economic potential by developing clusters of supporting industries, products, and services, such as the cluster around extraction and processing of copper ore in Chile and the Ontario Mineral Industry Cluster in Canada (Singh and Evans, 2009).
She adds, "Where we see the most potential for impact is actually by catalyzing this potential by having access to the most desperately needed energy". What customers are able to do to improve their own lives with the tools inspires her to continue working.
"And NASA will be driving competition, opening new markets and access to space and catalyzing the potential of American industry".
Rather than treating human mobility as a crisis, the global community could catalyze migration's potential to improve livelihoods, and increase financial, skills and cross-cultural exchange.
In an effort to catalyze research with potential to accelerate the progression from nonrenewable to renewable sources of energy, Harvard President Drew Faust today challenged University alumni and friends to contribute toward a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund that will seed new approaches to confronting the threats posed by climate change.
The two final pictures below sum up the concept of the u.lab--cross-sector, cross-intelligence, cross-discipline--and the enabling conditions that allow the u.lab to serve the eco-system and to catalyze its highest potential: a global movement for shifting ego-system awareness to eco-system awareness across all societal systems.
Creative ideas from the field, with the potential to catalyze change or provide alternatives to ideological thinking, are less likely to be funded now than ever before.
Ban's greater effect may lie in his potential to catalyze innovation in humanitarian relief.
Timber plantations have the potential to catalyze regeneration of natural forest on degraded land.
They have the potential to catalyze reactions with high specificity and efficiency without the use of hazardous chemicals.
