The phrase "driving force of progress" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: Innovation has been the driving force of progress in the technology industry.
Mr. Putin said that "the thirst for change is a natural, driving force of progress" but dangerous when it threatened civil peace.
Another point that you bring up is a recurring theme in the history of medicine: innovation as a driving force of progress.
And when we do consider technology in historical terms we customarily see it as a driving force of progress: every so often, it seems, an innovation the steam engine, electricity, computers brings a new age into being.
Indeed, you didn't have to be a follower of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens to find the plank entitled "Faith" a little cloying: Faith has always been a central part of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice throughout our history.
Controversies can serve as a major driving force of progress, since they stimulate thought, discussion, and the yearning for more knowledge.
While Comte holds that the driving force of human progress is intellectual development, he asserts that progress itself consists in moral improvement.
These differences of opinion don't signal immaturity or inadequacy in scientific endeavors; they are a driving force of scientific progress.
What has changed over the last decades, what was the driving force of the progress?
Dynamic and creative, they are forging ahead in business, in political life, in NGOS and in the media and are the driving force of regional economic and social progress.
Lamarck's ideas survived Weismann's experiments and more, perhaps, owing to the notion of the innate trend toward progress as a driving force of evolution that was attractive to various kinds of thinkers (and many individuals who hardly met that classification).
In the cases of Germany and Greece, technological progress (TECHCH) is the primary driving force of the observed productivity loss.
