"entails the need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to something that requires a certain action or result. For example: "The new regulations entail the need for additional training for all employees."
This entails the need for organizations to monitor the behavior of the partners with which they collaborate.
The existence of an environmental crisis resulting from the unbalanced exploration of natural resources is a concerning situation and entails the need for sustainable development.
The implementation of saving measures and energy efficiency entails the need to evaluate achievements in terms of energy saving and spending.
Continuous evolution towards very large, heterogeneous, highly dynamic computing systems entails the need for sound and flexible approaches to deal with system modification and re-engineering.
This entails the need to model SaaS services to predict the performance and overall system cost, and to estimate the required number of VM resources and their respective multi-core capacity prior to the actual deployment.
The use of different domain-specific modeling languages and diverse versions of the same modeling language often entails the need to translate models between the different languages and language versions.
On the other hand, the uncertainty affecting the production problem must be considered due to the presence of operations executed by human operators, the high level of customization entailing the need to cope with new products and processes and the behavior of the production environment.
This, in turn, seems to entail the need to abandon any sense of "goal directedness" in scientific inquiry.
For instance, the importance of learning from each other (rather than simply about each other) may provide a strong argument for public deliberation without necessarily being sufficient to entail the need for open ballots.
Often this complication will entail the need for renal replacement therapy until kidney function recovers.
Living in the city entailed the need for greater amounts of cash for day-to-day expenses.
