pioneering
/pʌɪəˈnɪərɪŋ
/adjective
Involving new ideas or methods: his pioneering work on consciousness...
- It doesn't look like anyone's idea of pioneering agriculture.
- Very clever idea and a pioneering effort for a small, impoverished political zine.
- The pioneering ideas of people such as Lev Vygotsky and Pyotr Anokhin are completely lost now.