"increasing research efforts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of putting more time, resources, and energy into conducting research. Example: "The government announced a new grant program aimed at increasing research efforts in renewable energy sources."
Increasing research efforts that focus on decreasing mortality, as well as media campaigns that help increase Congressional support for such efforts, is smarter.
Recent years have witnessed increasing research efforts in this area [20 22].
Is understanding of the causes of the losses inadequate despite increasing research efforts?
Micro- and nanotechnology have gathered 20 years of increasing research efforts.
In spite of increasing research efforts in this field, the underlying signaling processes are poorly understood.
As a result, despite the still increasing research efforts, industrial application does not seem to be round the corner, yet.
There has been increasing research effort in applying control-theoretic approaches to performance management for computer systems such as Internet web servers, databases and storage systems.
In the past 15 years, there has been an increasing research effort into antimicrobial surfaces but the great majority of these publications present research on bacteria, with some reports also testing resistance to fungi.
With the realisation that most coastal infrastructure cannot be removed, there is now an increasing research effort into ways that infrastructure can be built to meet engineering requirements, but to also increase its value as habitat – ecological engineering.
The covalent and noncovalent interactions of porphyrins and related tetraazamacrocyclic compounds with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is a subject of increasing research effort, directed toward the design of novel hybrid nanomaterials combining unique electronic and optical properties of both molecular species.
The high diversity of small phytoplankton in the Atlantic probably reflects an increasing research effort in that region by the Maritimes and Quebec.
