"creating interest in" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the process of making someone interested in something. For example: "The marketing campaign was extremely successful in creating interest in the new product."
Twenty/20 has played a crucial role in creating interest in cricket to a new audience.
"I still like to believe that the Cosmos were partly responsible for creating interest in the game here; we planted the seed," Ertegun said.
The challenge Fall faces is not creating interest in the game — there are thousands of young people who want to play, and coaches who want to coach.
Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society, who managed to glimpse the transit from a windswept, cloud-covered hill in the Cotswolds, said that events such as the transit were powerful levers for creating interest in astronomy.
Pinus radiata D.Don is in its third generation of selective breeding on contrasting site types in central Chile, creating interest in its responses to selection and any differential adaptation to site types.
By engaging several international partners and creating interest in the component industry and electronic imaging research forums, it is fair to say that the collaboration has grown from a platform to an ecosystem.
He needed to create interest in himself somehow.
Nothing creates interest in a work like official displeasure, or so, at least, historical precedent suggests.
Newspaper publicity had created interest in the book, and it sold better than any previous edition.
Bryant helped create interest in our first foray into televising N.F.L. regular-season games".
Movies based on Marvel characters also create interest in the characters as toys.
