"intellectual advances" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to advances or progress in knowledge or understanding. For example: "The scientific community has seen incredible intellectual advances in the past decade."
He said the report might have been based on purely material development, ignoring spiritual happiness and intellectual advances.
It was also a time in which cities achieved great cultural, artistic and intellectual advances, spawning both trade and knowledge exchange.
Tallis's belief that our salvation lies in an evolving communion of intellectual advances and resources is most vividly apparent in the central essay of the collection, Lord Howe's Wicked Dream, a ferocious attack on what he perceives as a long-hatched Tory mission to undo the NHS and deliver it into the dodgy hands of private enterprise.
There appears to be consensus among seasoned cyber security researchers that there is substantial disconnect between the research community's priorities and the real world notwithstanding numerous intellectual advances in the theory and practice of cyber security over the past four decades.
As a philosopher I am much aware of the simply stunning intellectual advances made under and possible by the Church.
Furthermore, without healthy emotional maturity it is very difficult for a child to integrate and implement intellectual advances and adjust to the world.
Written in Spenserian stanzas, the poem presents its theme with unrivaled delicacy but displays no marked intellectual advance over Keats's earlier efforts.
"I was drawn to this project by what makes it so extraordinary: the opportunity to develop a world-class center of learning and intellectual advance from the ground up, and to create an active connection with the Washington Square campus, thereby providing the foundation for a new concept of global university," Mr. Bloom said.
If the Weismann idea triumphs, it will be in a sense a triumph of fatalism... [while] civilizing nature will improve the individuals of each generation, its actual effects will not be cumulative as regards the race itself... each new generation must start de novo, receiving no increment of the moral and intellectual advance made during the lifetime of its predecessors.
The loud voice of certain intellectuals celebrating advances in biomedical issues such as cloning or the perspectives of positive eugenism may not be heard by the general population.
As large employers and as primary drivers of our innovation economy, research universities including their students, faculty, and staff play a vital role in producing the intellectual talent, scientific advances, and innovative ideas that are necessary for restoring economic growth, creating new jobs, and ensuring national security.
