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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
innovative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an innovative scheme (=using new ideas)
▪ an innovative scheme to help the unemployed get back to work
original/innovative (=no one has thought of it before)
▪ The company is looking for people who can come up with original ideas.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Although not yet in clinical use there is now some highly innovative potential in the treatment of disease.
▪ Slacker is very funny indeed and highly innovative in its use of roving camera and juxtaposing various disparate conversations.
more
▪ Much of this artistic creativity was more innovative than before.
▪ Try to come up with something more innovative and stimulating.
▪ Mission-driven organizations are more innovative than rule-driven organizations.
▪ There is no evidence that big drug firms are any more innovative than their smaller peers.
▪ Third, decentralized institutions are far more innovative than centralized institutions.
▪ Now we have one of the world's more innovative cultures.
▪ This is milk float technology - it could have been more innovative.
most
▪ One of the most innovative systems is that found in the optical mouse used with the Xerox Star business computer.
▪ Perhaps the most innovative feature of the ship involves food.
▪ Such are the mysteries and such is the music which made Detroit techno the most innovative musical event of the last decade.
▪ Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.
▪ The sound isn't the most innovative ever, and the influence of Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5 is obvious.
▪ One can be most innovative here.
▪ Pisanello is at his most innovative in his drawings, as is also Jacopo Bellini.
▪ One of the country's most innovative printmakers has brought the spectrum of artistic endeavor to the Old Pueblo.
very
▪ The programme is very innovative and interesting but funny at the same time.
▪ On the face of it, this plan of campaign did not seem very innovative.
▪ Wonderful stuff, and very innovative for its time.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ The second pilot investigation is concerned with the innovative activities of small firms.
▪ We didn't anticipate, though, the scale of this innovative activity.
▪ Finally, not all feedbacks from output markets have a deleterious effect on innovative activity.
approach
▪ A couple of early speeches suggested that he might marry innovative approaches with a commitment to U.S. leadership.
▪ In Chapter Seven, we will discuss the innovative approach he and his colleagues followed.
▪ To succeed in such an environment requires an innovative approach to business.
▪ Grammar Dictation offers an innovative approach to the study of grammar in the language classroom.
▪ The innovative approach cost only a small amount more, with no increase in price to the customer.
▪ Both Johansson and Reddy reached their conclusions by using a simple, yet innovative approach.
▪ He spent seven years furthering his understanding of head protection systems before coming up with his own innovative approach.
idea
▪ Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.
▪ The ship has some innovative ideas in entertaining as well.
▪ Machine knitting can convert innovative ideas into wearable artwork.
▪ Exposure during his or her career to innovative ideas and / or tactics.
▪ Educated privately at her homes at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan she inherited a long family tradition of unorthodox and innovative ideas.
▪ And then when the graduates from that process come up with the goods, invest in their innovative ideas.
▪ Labour needs to match its commitment to spending with innovative ideas about service delivery, financing and management.
▪ Many of their innovative ideas lost money and failed to win acceptance by customers.
product
▪ An innovative product embodying new technology meets new user needs and sells on performance.
▪ Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times, industry experts said.
▪ Brand A is an innovative product concept which will make life very much easier for all slimmers.
▪ Brand of the Year was awarded for our long term policy of providing modern stores and innovative products while retaining traditional values.
project
▪ Holt features the place of matrix structures and venture teams in organizing innovative projects.
▪ Throughout the year, a number of innovative projects, programmes and initiatives were formulated and delivered.
▪ This is an innovative project, aimed at combining the sociology of science with science policy analysis at the national level.
▪ Due to the great variety of approaches for organizing innovative projects, it is difficult to classify them.
▪ Quadrant 2 is an area in which innovative projects frequently end up, and it is risky.
scheme
▪ As already stated, many innovative schemes appeared to be in operation, but there was very little evaluation.
▪ Some innovative schemes have been proposed.
▪ He who pays the piper ... Such innovative schemes are not confined to the United States.
▪ It also funds innovative schemes to provide secure homes for young and old.
solution
▪ Magically, the two most obvious options are Flight and Become Ethereal, although other innovative solutions are possible.
▪ They might have entered competitions sponsored by local companies to provide innovative solutions to real-world problems.
technology
▪ Only innovative technology can achieve such a pace of construction, which the Soviets say is the fastest in the world.
ways
▪ This is despite considerable efforts to create innovative ways of developing teacher training in the post-independence period.
▪ But two companies are creating a stir with their innovative ways of delivering that information.
▪ Buying groups, marketing schemes and innovative ways of pooling farm resources are all developing.
work
▪ Indeed the Faculty encourages interdisciplinary activity and recognises that much innovative work has derived from the intellectual stimulus of multidisciplinary study.
▪ It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work.
▪ In July Eigen &038; Art in Berlin presents a cross-section of innovative work by young, international artists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an innovative young man
▪ The city has introduced an innovative system of traffic control.
▪ The idea for the programme 'Big Brother' was highly innovative.
▪ When it was first introduced, the electric car was described as one of the ten most innovative products of the year.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Innovative

Innovative \In"no*va*tive\, a. Characterized by, or introducing, innovations.
--Fitzed. Hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
innovative

1806 (with an isolated use from c.1600), from innovate + -ive. Related: Innovatively; innovativeness.

Wiktionary
innovative

a. 1 Characterized by the creation of new ideas or things 2 Forward looking; ahead of current thinking

WordNet
innovative

  1. adj. ahead of the times; "the advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"; "a forward-looking corporation"; "is British industry innovative enough?" [syn: advanced, forward-looking, modern]

  2. being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original" [syn: innovational, groundbreaking]

Usage examples of "innovative".

If the skein of historical causality had been different - if the brilliant guesses of the atomists on the nature of matter, the plurality of worlds, the vastness of space and time had been treasured and built upon, if the innovative technology of Archimedes had been taught and emulated, if the notion of invariable laws of Nature that humans must seek out and understand had been widely propagated - I wonder what kind of world we would live in now.

The very innovative Sir Pete was now working to formulate a decent shampoo, but had not yet gotten it to the production stage, he had averred when last he and Bass had talked.

There was nothing innovative, not mechanically, about Equinox or her crew.

The innovator has to run even harder now that he has leadership than he ran before and to continue his innovative efforts on a very large scale.

I am no stranger to innovative approaches to advertising, having pioneered the use of towable signboards in Oneonta back in the Nixon years, when I moved a fleet of thirty around town with a Dodge Dart, wearing a suit that today would be found comic.

Why celebrate the artistic perfection of the monophonic novel when Dostoyevsky, an innovative and original genius, was constructing the polyphonic novel with its infinite possibilities?

It is cosmopolitan, corrupt, mannerly, creative, historic, innovative, multivalent, gentle, bold, concerned, and exciting.

He was ironic and complex, and egalitarian in manner, and she admired his innovative if grandiose structuralist theories.

Moff Tarkin, who journeyed to Carida so that he could meet the mysterious individual who had developed such innovative tactics.

He had hoped to use the new fleshlike flowmetal of the face-altering machines to fool the Army of Humanity, but the innovative biometals suffered frequent failures, and the test robots often displayed unsettling facial meltdowns.

Marine Corps forces was innovative insofar as it required tight interservice cooperation and a streamlined command structure.

His more invisible helper, Gaius Maecenas, remained in Rome on less obvious business, chiefly concerned with recruiting innovative men of the lower classes.

Royal Manufactory at York, which turned out new and innovative firearms and stronger blends of gunpowder for the Royal Army, delighting King Arthur and utterly confounding the machinations of his enemies.

North Countryman who was previously a schoolteacher in Essex and an English lecturer in Yorkshire before making his mark as an innovative voice in crime fiction, where his success enabled him to devote himself fulltime to writing.

William Collier was, before he lost his reason, a multitalented and highly intelligent man, innovative, well read in many fields, and holding university degrees which included a doctorate or two in chemistry, in which field he also had done certain amounts of research for his government, involving propellants.