Engineering Ideas at the Zoo
THE INNOVATION:
Biomimicry-inspired incubation models have emerged in recent years, all aiming to nurture technologies originating in Nature’s laboratories. Today’s SMART innovation story, the last in a series of innovation stories from 2013 GreenBiz Forum in San Francisco, represents a new one to watch closely.
Our Conversation...
The San Diego Zoo Centre for BioInspiration
THE INNOVATION:
Biologists match animal and plant species’ natural adaptations to the functional requirements of specific industrial challenges. Once the biologists have gathered the options, then the engineers and designers get to work.
"The CFO at the zoo, Paula Brock, over five years ago realized the vast amount of information that is sitting in the zoo in the animal and plant collections and the people taking care of them… and how that applied to this new field of biomimicry, which we refer to as bioinspiration. We are absolutely a natural to contribute to that."
For past InnovatingSMART conversations in this series:
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