The phrase "engender progress" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use this phrase to indicate that something has caused or inspired progress. For example, "John's leadership helped to engender progress at the company."
In advanced industrialized countries, such as the United States, entrepreneurship has long been considered as a way to spur innovation and technological progress, engender competition, and create employment, leading to economic growth and national prosperity (Holmgren and From 2005).
I wonder if this could be the result of a deadly mix of higher alcohol consumption with a bitterness engendered by the progress of feminism in these countries; but that's a matter for another time.
Several people who had been involved in the proceedings, which were being held under a press blackout, said the talks had followed a frustrating pattern in recent days of rapid bursts of progress engendering periods of optimism that were then dashed when an unforeseen bump appeared to slow everything down and intensify emotions.
With recent technological progress engendering factors such as promotion of industrial symbiosis, substitution of materials across sectors, and green product-service system, it is worth checking if these factors have caused a change in hierarchy among sectors.
These achievements do not impede progress; they engender it.
The issue of the extent to which such progress has engendered any ethical dimensions has been addressed.
Increased public awareness -- and the political will it engenders -- has been a major factor in the progress we've achieved so far.
The experience of living and working in the city can engender a sense of responsibility towards a collective and aspirations concerning progress, while simultaneously encouraging disengagement and cynicism.
(By engendering the illusion of explanation they tend to impede the progress of science; this may well account for Quine's animus against the term).
The index ranks African countries according to their progress in promoting legal systems, protecting human rights and engendering economic and human development.
