Abstract
In this chapter, we present the biomimicry discipline as innovation and sustainability engine. We present the origins of the biomimicry disciplines and delineate its boundaries by the Roadmap for the bio-terms. We continue with biomimicry strands and growth rates and move to discuss biomimicry as an innovation engine, where we explain the innovation mechanism of the biomimetic design process based on literature review and examples. We then move to discuss biomimicry as a sustainability engine and present several biomimetic sustainability tools that can be used during early design stages, suggesting sustainability design strategies. We conclude with a discussion on the imperfection of nature and the biomimicry promises and obstacles.
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