"foundational knowledge base" is correct and is usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the base of knowledge or information on which a particular topic is based. For example: "The foundational knowledge base of the study was established before any further research was conducted."
Green challenged attendees to contemporize ELSI research and stressed the importance for ELSI researchers to balance a foundational knowledge base with knowledge gained from acting as 'research SWAT teams' collecting empirical evidence to inform best practices.
In brief, this first year (DS1) course is designed to build a foundational knowledge base of oral pathogens and immunity, to help students describe the impact of oral pathogens on the orofacial areas, the concepts of mucosal immune mechanisms and the pathogenic mechanisms of the oral flora.
Randomised and non-randomised controlled trials reporting original data on educational interventions specific to developing foundational knowledge and skills of evidence-based practice were included.
Experimental research has played an integral role in the development of foundational knowledge on which the physical sciences and engineering are based.
The scenarios and questions are based on what is perceived to be foundational knowledge of macroevolution that individuals should have acquired upon completing a standard high school science curriculum.
As resilience has been shown to be a phenomenon based strongly on learning processes, adult education holds beneficial foundational knowledge to understanding individual coping capacities.
Rationalism in the form of the Intuition/Deduction thesis is also committed to epistemic foundationalism, the view that we know some truths without basing our belief in them on any others and that we then use this foundational knowledge to know more truths.
The knowledge base includes the GO [ 28], the ChEBI Ontology [ 30], the Celltype Ontology [ 29], the Foundational Model of Anatomy [ 31] and the PATO Ontology [ 23], all of which are freely available from the OBO Foundry ontology repository [ 35].
Africa's knowledge base is expanding.
Biochemistry, Hellerstein says, is foundational knowledge in the 21st century.
