uuenduslike

Uuenduslik is an Estonian adjective meaning "renewal-oriented" or "innovative." The form uuenduslike is a declined form used with plural nouns in genitive or partitive cases, and it commonly appears in phrases describing multiple innovative elements. For example, uuenduslike ideede arendamine means the development of innovative ideas, and uuenduslike lahenduste kasutamine means the use of innovative solutions. In the nominative plural, the form is uuenduslikud ideed (innovative ideas).

Etymology: the word is built from the noun uuendus, meaning renewal or modernization, with the suffix -lik, which means “-like” or “-ish.” The construction mirrors other Estonian adjectives formed from a noun plus -lik, yielding a term that characterizes something as involving renewal or novelty.

Usage: uuenduslik is common in technology, business, design, and policy discourse to describe products, processes, or strategies that introduce new methods or significant improvements. In contemporary Estonian, uuenduslik and its related forms are widely used alongside the borrowed term innovatiivne; the former can carry a slightly more formal or technical nuance in official or academic writing. The genitive plural form uuenduslike is particularly frequent in written contexts when describing attributes of multiple items within a larger noun phrase, for example "uuenduslike tehnoloogiate väljatöötamine" (development of innovative technologies).

See also: uuenduslikkus (innovativeness), innovatiivne (innovative). The term is part of a broader vocabulary for modernization and efficiency in Estonian discourse and is readily understood in technical and organizational texts.