"trigger the interest" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to express that something has stimulated or aroused interest in a particular person or group. For example: "The new movie trailer managed to trigger the interest of moviegoers everywhere."
Players successful at international level can trigger the interest of wealthy clubs from Mumbai to Melbourne and thus the money flows (this does not quite apply to Middlesex as well, though recently the big names have also been attracted to a few weeks' work in England in their off-season despite the absence of the "franchise" tag).
Such structures may trigger the interest of medicinal chemists for novel HIV-1 PR inhibitors possessing higher bioactivity.
We hope that our simple model and analysis trigger the interest of researchers from diverse disciplines, including international economics and finance, systems and ecological engineering, and the physical and mathematical sciences, thereby helping them cooperate to better understand and improve the global economic system.
There is a trend toward dose-escalating effects of EA that may trigger the interest for further studies.
UNICEF's initiative has helped trigger the interest of Cambodia's Government and multilateral aid institutions in expanding the Equity Fund project throughout the country.
"Yao absolutely triggered the interest in basketball, and a lot of the credit should go to him," said David Shoemaker, the chief executive of N.B.A. China.
gate stacks, has triggered the interest of exploring Ge for sub 32 nm technology nodes.
This finding triggered the interest to investigate the effect of the lidocaine/prilocaine topical anesthetic, Oraqix®, on pain reduction from the initial placement of orthodontic separators.
Indeed, in the years, these concepts have triggered the interest of the drug discovery community both in academia and pharmaceutical companies to such a point that a plethora of multi-target drugs are already available on the market.
However, it was ever just a theoretical conception until Strukov et al. found the missing memristor device in studying TiO2 cross array in 2008 [2], which triggers the interest of researchers around the world.
The characters of silcrete varieties that may have triggered the interest of prehistoric peoples to exploit them for manufacturing stone tools, and which control knappability, include granulometry and the specific nature of silica cements.
