The book “Biomimicry” authored by Janine Benyus, describes a science that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to provide innovative and sustainable solutions for industry and research development.
Benyus’s book sets out that there are nine basic laws underpinning the concept of biomimicry:
1. Nature runs on sunlight
2. Nature uses only the energy it needs
3. Nature fits form to function
4. Nature recycles everything
5. Nature rewards cooperation
6. Nature banks on diversity
7. Nature demands local expertise
8. Nature curbs excesses from within
9. Nature taps the power of limits.
The book also gives cases of innovations which have been inspired by nature.
Comments: Since the time in memory Man has been constantly reaping nature. Apart from using nature’s gift, he has endeavoured to imitate nature and develop ideas for various purposes. This practice has rendered numerous successes and today’s world is replete with these imitations.
Innovation inspired by nature must be one of the most powerful innovations even in this modern technology driven genre. Some of the basic laws that nature adopts for its innovations (listed above) are valid for any of real world innovator. The concepts remain the same for any innovation and giving a careful look into how nature innovates with purpose will surely give more insights into the process of innovation itself.
Nature in its truest form offers unlimited ideas, it is only unto the innovative mind to lap up these ideas and implement.
Scribe:Rakesh
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