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I came to the US, to make high-nutrient, disease-immune and easy to grow genetically engineered potato. Initially, I was concentrating on the science side, but eventually started to realize, that it is not only science that needs to be changed but also the 'system' where scientific innovation resides. After completing a doctoral degree in bioengineering and innovation management, I have ventured to study international management and international politics, as a means to study science policy. My eventual goal is to apply the science policy in developing nations, but I am now focusing to apply in Japan, where the country is in deep trouble, not being able to align the country with rapidly spreading globalization.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Biomimicry and Innovation

Day Five

Saw director for CleanTECH cluster group here and also attended Biomimicry Conference today.

Innovators now rely quite a lot on nature's innovation to get 'hints' for their innovations.

(from Wikipedia)
Biomimicry or biomimetics is the examination of nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements to emulate or take inspiration from in order to solve human problems. The term biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate. Other terms often used are bionics, bio-inspiration, and biognosis.

Nature has had millions of years to try out what works the best for them to survive on this planet. Humanities are trying to create something in much much shorter period of time. In that sense, humanities' approach is much more 'directed' whereas the approaches done by nature could be considered as 'evolutionary' or 'shot-gun' as many parameters are tested at once.

I was just going to write..the survival for the fittest for nature, but I guess survival of the fittest also works in humanities too.

Met a lot of interesting people...gotta rest a bit.

16 more days until routinization

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