"develop towards" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to indicate improvement of something over time, typically in a given direction. For example, "The company has developed towards success over the last decade".
In the quick popularity and promoting function of micro-computer and internet, human-computer researches have unprecedented development and develop towards more intellect, convenient, human orientated direction.
Discussion is presented, indicating the followings future development directions for ES methodologies and applications: (1) ES methodologies are tending to develop towards expertise orientation and ES applications development is a problem-oriented domain.
Internal cracks arise close to the steel bars and develop towards the member's edge.
This is allowed to develop towards dynamic equilibrium and is the principal means of model validation.
The court, to be fair, predicted as much, saying that it expected international law to "develop" towards a total ban on the use of the bomb.
However, all programs have the potential to develop towards containing all of the 'best practice' design features, with most emphasis needed on the credibility of program monitoring.
If one aspect of his early work developed towards abstraction, another took a more political route.
Almost 20 years ago, I researched how London should be developed towards the east.
Nowadays, architecture is developing towards fairly modern ecological solutions.
"Marriage has been developing towards an institution that is a union of two people to establish a secure household.
The combustion front then develops towards the heel-end of the injector and extends laterally.
