Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

The results are in, and once again they tell an interesting story. In our most recent poll, we asked if you are employing biomimicry as a source of innovation inspiration. The results can be seen to ...

How does nature make durable materials like corals without heat or a kiln? How do peacock feathers get their beautiful colors? And how do geckos stick to all kinds of surfaces, allowing them to run up ...

When the Wright brothers were figuring out how to build an airplane, they took inspiration from some of the fliers of the natural world - birds. Nature has had a long time to perfect its ways, so why ...

4 months ago - The Biomimicry Institute has chosen India’s GreenPod Labs and Germany’s Fusion Bionic as 2022’s top biomimicry startups, from a pool of over 200 applicants from 54 countries. 7 months ...

“At Watku we've always subscribed to the philosophy that true innovation and creativity in business happens at the edges,” says Ryan. Edge zones, borrowed from Janine Benyus' book, Biomimicry: ...

The Ray of Hope Prize competition gives startups a chance to get their biomimetic innovations to market; entrepreneurs with nature-inspired design solutions for climate mitigation, carbon ...

U.S. biologist Janine Benyus, co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute in the Montana, wrote the book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature in 1997 and has been responsible for propagating the ...

Are you looking for an innovative product idea? Is there a design problem you can’t quite wrap your head around? If so, maybe it’s time to look outside yourself and take a cue from Mother Nature.

Patterns in nature can offer unique insights for health care, and University Hospitals is looking to explore that with health care professionals and representatives from the region's entrepreneurial ...

Almon is a dimensional designer and biomimicry aficionado, and his passion for the ways in which nature can help us solve problems—both in design and beyond—is infectious. When he's not designing ...

What do sunflowers, lotus leaves, owls and sea urchins have in common? Designers are imitating both the way they look and the way they work to create better-functioning products for the home -- a ...