"incubation phase" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a period of time when an idea, process, or illness is developing, but has not yet fully matured or been identified. For example: "My business plan is currently in the incubation phase."
Miller: We have a partnership we have been incubating since the summer, and in the incubation phase, we actually shorted the 20-year treasury.
Many companies make significant progress like this in the incubation phase, demonstrating their willingness to take ownership of sustainability and even identifying opportunities to take action.
Females selected hardwood stands during pre-nesting and post-nesting phases, but avoided them during the incubation phase.
Additionally, in this analysis we included PBMC samples collected from 18 children initially enrolled into the second cohort of this study (Cohort B) that were later shown to be in the incubation phase of measles.
Idoni said, "and it would spur our tourism industry and the growth of our downtown". An effort to export local businesses to France "is still in the incubation phase," he said.
A year ago, a movement toward sweeping skirts was in its "incubation phase," said Holli Rogers, the buying director of Net-a-Porter, the online fashion retailer.
After 8 h of incubation, phase-contrast images of the totality of the wells were taken with an Olympus CKX41 inverted microscope coupled to a DP20 digital camera.
Control is possible during the inoculation and incubation phases, but when the plant reaches the infection stage it is already damaged.
Fig. 2 Mineralisation rates after soil inoculation with MCCP in two consecutive incubation phases.
As already highlighted, the entrepreneur in the pre-incubation phase is largely responsible for the innovation.
Here we have applied this term in its broadest sense — i.e., a subtoxic cellular stress that can lead to a protective state (Stetler et al., 2014) in order to account for the proteostatic priming observed during our pre-incubation phase of cooling.
