'overlooked importance' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is important, but not given the proper attention or recognition that it deserves. For example: "The overlooked importance of a good night's sleep is often underestimated in our busy lives."
Mr Rybczynski makes a strong case for the hitherto overlooked importance of the screwdriver, and the result is a charming book that drills sideways into technological history and is never a bore.
Much more recently, but already more than a generation ago on the topic of the overlooked importance of entrepreneurs in economic theory, the prominent economist Baumol (as cited in Oyama (2008) offers this eloquent barb: 'Look for [the entrepreneur] in the index of some of the most noted recent writings on value theory, in neoclassical or activity analysis models of the firm.
Furthermore, the need for model validation highlights the often-overlooked importance of maintaining traditional/existing systems in the existing NDS literature.
Besides essential amino acids and nutritive factors of high quality and availability, meat provides often overlooked components of importance for human health.
For instance, the themes "Entrepreneurial family business" and "Leadership and top management teams" have been somewhat overlooked or have lost importance over the last years.
Until last week, Mr. Obama's comments about race, however sensible, were mostly in the context of damage control (during the controversy over his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in 2008) or straightforward inspiration (his often-overlooked speeches about the importance of fatherhood and family responsibility).
Furthermore, given that melanin is the most common pigment in vertebrate tissues, with functions ranging from antioxidant activity to protection from radiation and mechanical wearing [5], [9], [53], the importance of this overlooked physiological cost for understanding variation in the expression of any melanic phenotypic trait, including human skin [54], seems evident.
Subsequently, to illustrate overlooked essential functions, we show the importance of safety valves, as well as the need to cope with leftovers.
In particular, this study emphasizes the importance of the often overlooked interactions between macrofaunal and microbial communities upon key biogeochemical cycling processes within coastal benthic ecosystems.
This is an often overlooked factor, which is of great importance when trying to reduce unwanted variance in the data in order to increase the sensitivity of statistical tests.
These experiments have brought about very important but overlooked findings.
