Challenges and inventive solutions in living nature

Biomimetics or Biomimicry becomes more and more popular now – everyone wants to borrow ideas from living nature to improve products or just to be closer to nature.  Living creatures are incredibly diverse and often it is difficult to decide where to find the source of the right ‘lesson’ to learn from and how to make the correct choice from the variaty of "answer" that we get from biologys. Our answer is simple – make a model of your challenge and get the models of the solutions from similar challenges from biology. Read more about how to create the model of your challenge in the “Inventor’s Manual”. To make the biomimetic design reliable and teachable we have developed special systematic inventive method, which we called BioTRIZ. In our Blogs, we will give you examples of how BioTRIZ works in translation from biology to technology.

You will be surprised, but here is an “alphabet” for inventive solutions! – Forty Inventive Principles, which were initially formulated in engineering, but we discovered them in biology as well!  When animals, plants or other creatures need to resolve some difficult or even “unsolvable” problem they use the same inventive pattern(s) as all inventors do. Moreover, there are only 40 patterns for inventive solutions that can resolve most of the inventive challenges on a win-win basis.