Spurring in a sentence as a noun

The original idea seemed to be an open-source platform, which is a nice way of spurring innovation.

The Swartz tragedy does not want for sympathy, emotion, or action-spurring anger.

The current privacy issue is growing in the public consciousness, spurring action from "techies".

Vendors are happy with the fact that the web is actually progressing now with competition spurring it unlike when Microsoft stopped working on IE in the olden days.

""One of Google’s top policy priorities is spurring the availability and uptake of affordable, open broadband Internet service.

For those that have dug into the platform it's amazingly clear that without the iPhone coming along and spurring Google on to greater things Android would have been a complete non-event at launch, especially with the dire performance of the early devices.

How could they possibly do that without spurring the invention of a lot of amazing things as a side-effect?I've mentioned my hypothesis that it would have positive effects on geopolitics by making it possible to view Earth as a locality.

On the consumer end, is it reasonable to imagine them reselling bandwidth to end-users under terms that favor their business, thus spurring competition?Everyone who controls the consumer side of bandwidth seems to be an ******* of one flavor or another perhaps Netflix's needs could align with consumers in such a way as to change that.

Spurring definitions

noun

a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"

See also: goad goading prod prodding urging spur