"intellectual stream" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an abstract way to refer to a flow of ideas or theories shared among a group of people. For example, "The intellectual stream of the 19th century Romantic Movement included the work of poets and novelists such as Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley."
"In every period in history, there is always one country that dominates the intellectual stream," said Mr. Gurumurthy, who is known to his classmates as G.K. and who is now studying for his Ph.D. at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Buddhist distinction between the subjective perception (neng 能) and the objects of comprehension within external reality (suo 所) influenced already the earliest precursors of this intellectual stream, such as for instance Shao Yong (1011 1077).
By the 1990's, neoconservatism had been fed by several other intellectual streams.
The same intellectual streams whose confluence produced psychology as an independent discipline toward the end of the 19th century led to the later development of applied psychology.
Beginning in the 1980s, their importance was reinforced with the emergence of the methodological approach known as new institutionalism and its intellectual streams, including rational choice institutionalism, historical institutionalism, normative institutionalism, and sociological institutionalism.
He is an icon to a certain kind of obsessive anti-snobbish and anti-intellectual stream of thought in British modern culture that has passed, in recent decades, for the wave of the democratic future.
But for the past five years, a steadily increasing stream of intellectual property lawyers from Boston, New York, San Francisco and all points Texas have filled the chain hotels along U.S. Highway 59.
Then Hollywood rediscovered a rich stream of intellectual property and coincident nostalgia in geek touchstones Star Wars, Marvel Comics and JRR Tolkien at the turn of the century.
The report also identified an emerging trend around intellectual property theft called "stream ripping," that's plaguing the music industry.
Rather, they speed up that evolution -- patents and new ventures encourage variation to justify or avoid that intellectual property, an endless stream of innovation, where the more differentiation, the more customers attracted, the more highly useful products evolved, and the more surplus cash created.
A steady stream of intellectuals, writers and artists pushed through the wooden swing doors.
