The phrase "frontier research" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe research that is cutting-edge, disruptive, and innovative. An example sentence might read: "We are currently conducting frontier research into new technologies that will revolutionize the industry."
There are great universities sponsoring frontier research of global significance.
He told China's state broadcaster CCTV last year: "It will give China an opportunity to conduct frontier research".
In the past year, four federal grants for "energy frontier research centers" were won by Argonne, the University of Illinois, Northwestern and the University of Chicago.
221.2—Frontier research in the ERC.
At the same time, frontier research is in the eyes of the beholder".
ERC has a €7.5 billion budget to spend on frontier research through 2013.
This paper presents the latest results of seismoelectromagnetic research, cordinated in the NASDA Earthquake Remote Sensing Frontier Research Project (http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/Sciences/ERSFR/index.html).html
Other U.S. government-funded research consortia include the Department of Energy (DOE) Innovation Hubs and Energy Frontier Research Centers, and the Department of the Interior Regional Climate Centers.
The proposed research centers would be bigger and more concerned with near-term problems than those in a competing proposal by the Department of Energy for its planned Energy Frontier Research Centers.
Speaker Terttu Luukkonen, a research and innovation policy scientist at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy in Helsinki, explained that transformative research which in Europe is better known as groundbreaking, cutting-edge, or frontier research can take many forms.
At the time of his arrest, he was in what he calls a "very productive" phase of his career, overseeing nine research projects, including work for Temple's Energy Frontier Research Center, which is funded by the Department of Energy.
