The phrase "substantive enhancements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing meaningful improvements or significant changes to a process, product, or system.
Example: "The new software update includes several substantive enhancements that improve user experience and functionality."
Alternatives: "meaningful improvements" or "significant upgrades."
Who decides whether another invention is a mere copy or a substantive enhancement that deserves protection, too?
The essay cites Treasury Department rulings that buying the rights to books not yet written, or making substantive alterations or enhancements in written works from those countries, might be illegal and punishable unless each transaction was licensed in advance by the department.
The Treasury office ruled that the institute could edit a manuscript from a country under embargo, and engage in peer review, but that making any "substantive or artistic alterations or enhancements of the manuscript" would be illegal without a license.
In 2010, the length of the composition was increased to approximately 1000 words, allowing for greater elaboration of visual and physiological analyses of the chosen works, an enhancement that yielded more substantive and thoughtful responses from the students.
These included, at psychological level, job satisfaction and professional stimulation; but also, at more substantive level, providers felt they gained through enhancement of their skills and the broadened scope for experiential learning.
"Cognitive enhancement," they write, "unlike enhancement for sports competitions, could lead to substantive improvements in the world".
While the provisions of the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act are more symbolic than substantive -- American administrations have been empowered to give Taiwan military aid for more than two decades -- moving toward more formal military relations could have damaging diplomatic consequences with China.
There is the social cachet a prestigious museum confers, the occasional possibility of career enhancement, the need to fill the day with substantive work.
We want to serve as America's gentle enabler, but we also want to "take on the big issues," so we've prepared our annual State of the Union libation enhancement guide with an eye toward giving you the most substantive and informed scuppering available in the contiguous United States.
Largely ignoring the more substantive aspects of the recent Unicode characters update (to 7.0) to smartphones and computers, such as the enhancements to support for Indic languages, and the expansion of Asian, African and Cantonese support, media outlets mostly chose to froth with child-like glee (or occasionally despair) at the added emoticons, in this case those known as emoji.
