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to innovate

to innovate

39 5.5
Bring in new ideas or ways of doing things
  • verb
  • /ˈɪnəˌveɪt/
translation icon : innovar
  • The company has embraced new technologies to innovate its product line and attract more customers.
  • incentives to innovate
  • invent and innovate
  • ability to innovate

We're embracing the necessity to lead, to innovate, to solve this problem.

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Examples

  • In the current highly competitive global environment, firms must innovate simply to stand still.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Faculty members are encouraged to innovate in the distance education area.

    Academic text (1996)
  • We have the ability to create and innovate and do lots of things.

  • So we will have to to innovate all the time the ways we see things.

  • Without additional funding, institutions must innovate to try to reach more students with limited means.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In answering these questions, Burke will continue to innovate and improve.

    Academic text (2013)
  • We're embracing the necessity to lead, to innovate, to solve this problem.

  • Firms have a greater incentive to innovate because successful products can be marketed on a worldwide basis.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Building capacity to create and innovate in our students is central to guaranteeing the nation's competitiveness.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In order to stay competitive, businesses must innovate and adapt to changing market demands.

Synonyms

to develop
vsto innovate
668 1.8

To create something new like an idea or product

emphasizes applying new methods to change or improve existing things
to invent
vsto innovate
532 3.1

To make something new that did not exist before

focuses more on applying novel techniques to change existing things
to introduce
vsto innovate
520 2.1

To bring a new person, idea, or thing into a group

means making change through new techniques rather than only showing something

How Innovative

to innovate
39 5.5
to improve
1.0
to change
1.0
to modify
268 3.2

Surface Forms

innovate infinitive
innovated past
innovated past participle
innovating present participle
innovates third person singular

Morphology

innovate = in + nov + ate

The lexical parts correspond to in- + nov- + -ate (Latin-derived), so the meaning 'make new' is recoverable for learners familiar with 'innovation' or 'new', but the combining form 'nov' is not a standalone English word and the Latinate morphology may obscure the relation for many B1 learners.

Etymology

Innovate comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and novare 'make new', the same root behind the English word novel 'new'. So to innovate is to 'make something new', like new ideas, products, or ways of working.