'locus of innovation' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a place or setting where new ideas or methods are generated and implemented. For example, "Silicon Valley has become the locus of innovation for the technology industry since the early 1990s."
The United States is also the headquarters for the developers of the world's two dominant wireless operating systems and the locus of innovation in the applications market.
A glance at where, and for what, patents are nowadays being granted suggests that the locus of innovation has begun to move from telecoms, computing and e-commerce towards fresher pastures especially in genomics and nanotechnology.
"The locus of innovation has shifted westward in the United States," Mr. Schwab, chairman of the museum's investment committee, said in an interview in the museum's all-white boardroom, with trial pages from the museum's updated Web site tacked on one wall.
Just as, in the seventies, the locus of innovation in the tech business shifted from Goliaths like Digital and I.B.M. toward the smaller, more narrowly focussed start-ups of Silicon Valley, so it is shifting now from big to little pharma.
Or has the locus of innovation moved on permanently, creating new centres of technological excellence such as the strip between San Diego and Los Angeles, where many new genomic ventures are setting up shop There are crucial lessons in the way the telecoms industry was deregulated that need to be absorbed before IT can enjoy any serious resurgence.
In many cases, city government has become the locus of innovation, leveraging data, technology, social impact bonds, and other tools.
Our conversation on Technotopia started with the Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the World's Fair the Futurama exhibits and went on to cover the loci of innovation and what we can do to better predict what will happen with culture and technology.
Technology-based firms are viewed as key loci of innovation and, indeed, this innovation is not limited to product innovation, even though many of the stereotypes that come to mind have to do with the development of ever more technologically advanced 'widgets'widgets
The River to River Festival (June 17-July 15) has seldom been a locus of choreographic innovation, but this year the free programming transplants some of the best recent dances for small stages (by Beth Gill, Maria Hassabi, and others) onto piers and into ferry terminals.
In the late 1980's, it did seem that the United States would suffer a similar fate at the hands of Japan and West Germany, but just as they began to catch up in basic manufacturing, the locus of growth and innovation changed from industrial to postindustrial capitalism -- from hardware to software (much of which is misleadingly labeled services).
Yes, Boeing has been disciplined and strengthened by global-market competition, particularly with Airbus, but large-scale federal spending on defense contracts has crucially strengthened Boeing's position as a locus of human capital, design experience, and innovation.
