The phrase 'critical innovation' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe an innovation that has a significant and/or far-reaching impact, especially in terms of its implications, applications, or consequences. Example sentence: Our team's critical innovation has propelled us to the forefront of the industry.
The engine drove two propellers, another critical innovation.
Professor Sandoval dated the critical innovation of using hydraulics to raise and lower cars to 1958.
Like corporations, we've come to realise how critical innovation is to our success.
By funding both the WaterCredit and New Ventures Fund, the IKEA Foundation is helping drive forward the critical innovation needed to end the water and sanitation crisis improving the lives of children living in the world's poorest communities.
Shipping oil by rail is generally more expensive than by pipeline, but the oil companies working in North Dakota made a critical innovation — leasing complete 100-car trains dedicated to oil rather than the traditional train that ships a variety of products.
The critical innovation required for this preparation should be the creation of a Crisis Resolution Board.
Some four decades separated the critical innovations in electrical engineering of the 1880s and the broad influence of electrification on economic growth.
One of the critical innovations underpinning the project is a smart grid, which will see every villa, apartment and condominium hooked up to same real-time information network, enabling the supply of electricity to be lined up with demand.
The imaginative and entrepreneurial culture in LA has spawned a number of critical innovations in the IT industry, including the foundation of the Internet's largest profit center.
Although the inventions embodied in the Internet originated in a diverse set of industrial economies, the US was consistently the source of critical innovations and an early adopter of new applications.
Some of the most critical innovations today are low-tech and no-tech, and I implore you not to worship the false idols of Silicon Valley.
