The phrase 'has spurred development' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that something has caused progress or encouraged growth in an area. For example: "The commitment of government funds to the project has spurred development in the local community."
The High Line has spurred development and inspired other cities to reuse their own abandoned infrastructure.
The construction of the six-acre campus, once haunted by abandoned crack houses, has spurred development nearby.
And increased Federal spending on airport security has spurred development of sensors that can detect weapons underneath clothing or inside metal containers.
Even as he has spurred development, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has acknowledged the problem, calling for the creation of green space within 10 minutes' walking distance of every resident.
The Expo route has spurred development proposals from major companies, including Hines, an international firm based in Houston, and Casden Properties, a leading Los Angeles developer of multifamily properties.
The success of these trials has spurred development of a modified system that is now ready for integration into an operational mine machine automation system.
Now, after 30 years of intense basic and applied research, realization of the practical use of insect-parasitic nematodes, particularly of entomopathogenic nematodes and their symbiotic bacteria, has spurred developments across a far broader scientific front.
This situation has spurred developments in heterogeneous catalytic systems with examples reporting packed bed reactors, monolithic flow-through formats with silica-based materials and organic (monolithic) polymers.
Just as mobile phones have spurred development in poor countries, Mr Raptopoulos hopes drone delivery will do something similar.The second group is called Aria ("autonomous roadless intelligent array").
Over the past few decades, advances in hydrogel technologies have spurred development in many biomedical applications including controlled drug delivery.
Differences in behavior between flatfish and roundfish have spurred development of selective flatfish trawls, with low rise head ropes and/or open or large mesh intermediates that allow rising roundfish to exit the net opening, while flatfish remain close to the net floor, passing into the net and back to the codend.
