The phrase "fostered the development of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the encouragement or support of growth or progress in a particular area, such as skills, ideas, or projects.
Example: "The new policy fostered the development of innovative solutions within the organization."
Alternatives: "encouraged the growth of" or "promoted the advancement of".
Due to these characteristics, Smalltalk fostered the development of the technology and the spirit that enabled a different way of developing software.
Automation has also fostered the development of systems engineering, operations research, and linear programming.
The Sāmānids also fostered the development of a second Islamicate language of high culture, New Persian.
The increasing complexity of these professions required permanent records, which fostered the development of writing and bookkeeping.
Birmingham and Edinburgh, in particular, have successfully fostered the development of new clusters of support for start-ups over the past couple of years.
It has made Aberdeen rich and fostered the development of exactly the sort of high-tech industry that ministers swoon over.
"He fostered the development of the next generation of academic child psychiatrists from many countries, in Europe, Korea, China, as well as Israel," said Dr. James F. Leckman, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, who worked closely with Dr. Cohen.
But most of all it was the general spirit of humanism critical, ebullient, precise, focused on the physical world, and passionate in its quest for results that fostered the development of the scientific spirit in social studies and natural philosophy.
Roman's son Daniel (reigned 1221 64) reunited Volhynia with Galicia in 1238 (the union had lapsed after Roman's death), built cities (e.g., Lviv), encouraged a flourishing east-west trade through his lands, and fostered the development of fine arts.
Most attempts at farming in these areas have been abandoned, but the combination of a comparative wilderness in a northern climate, clear lakes, and white-water streams has fostered the development of both regions as year-round outdoor recreation areas.
Although R.E.M. never fetishized their home base, they stayed there and in a small way fostered the development of a distinct Athens take on things—slightly eccentric thoughts allied to fairly straightforward rock.
