The phrase "drive the progress of" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is making progress happen. For example, "His relentless effort to stay ahead of the competition and drive the progress of the industry is remarkable."
We conduct them all in local language and invite social media, competitors and partners to revel in the discourse to help drive the progress of the Gov 2.0 movement".
Similarly, the identification of biological modules that confer new functionalities, when assembled in different contexts, will drive the progress of SB (Schmidt and Pei, 2011).
In June 2013, I described how sequencing the highly abnormal genomes of cancer cells can identify some of the mutations that drive the progress of the disease (and how that's only the beginning of the story).
An economy of individuals who manufacture commercial products merely by existing has nightmarish implications, and, given his belief that commercialism should be celebrated for having driven the progress of modernity, Lanier isn't the best person to dispel them.
The spatiotemporal pattern of gradual institutional transformation since 1978 has formed a model of "administrative urbanization" and driven the progress of restructuring urbanization in China, called Chinese-style urban spatial restructuring (USR).
Recent developments in microarray technologies and bioinformatics have driven the progress of this field [ 1].
Therefore, a potential role of apoptotic DNA fragmentation is the facilitation of horizontal transfer of genes that drives the progress of evolution.
It is easy to argue that giving up strict publication criteria eliminates the competition for a place in top journals which, in part, drives the progress of research and promotion these days.
Who (or which institution) is expected to drive the progress?
Since resampling is driven by the progress of the clustering of the feature space, both the number and the position of mean shift kernels is selected in proportion to the content of the image.
Shall we drive the vehicle of progress for Karamoja or shall we just sit and allow others to drive it for us?" The UNICEF-sponsored meeting – 'Creating a Shared Vision for Karamoja' – followed guidelines laid out in the 'Future Search' paradigm, an interactive planning process used worldwide in diverse cultures to achieve shared goals.
