Keynote presentation on Biomimicry and Biomimetics in the UK for the Knowledge Transfer Network, Special Interest Group as part of Innovate UK.

2. Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director

3. Plane sketch

4. What does the
UK design?

5. The team

6. Richard James
MacCowan
Managing Director
Will
Lawson
Facilitator
Lewis
Charters
Researcher
Tim
Mak
Biotechnology
Chris
Hassell
Biology & Ecology

7. Advisory
Board

8. Prof Marc
Desmuilliez
Physics + Engineering
Prof Julian
Vincent
Biology + Engineering
Dr Kalina
Raskin
Chemistry + Biology
Dr Rupert
Soar
Additive Manufacturing
+ Engineering

9. What we do

10. We help
innovators
develop new
solutions

11. Designing
the right thing

12. DEFINE IDENTIFY DEVELOP

13. DEFINE IDENTIFY DEVELOP

14. DEFINE IDENTIFY DEVELOP

15. Some of our
previous
clients…

17. Projects

18. Housing
Cairo

20. Concept of the building

22. Housing Competition - Egypt

23. Housing Competition - Egypt

25. Public Square Competition -
Birmingham
Centenary
Square,
Birmingham

26. Concept of the building

30. Adaptive Cities
through Nature
based Solutions

32. Biomimetics
in the UK

35. "Our colour and materials designers
seek inspiration everywhere…
because how can you break new
ground if you never dare to look
beyond what’s around you?"
McLaren Automotive Design Vision

45. Non-Newtonian
fluids

52. Copyright: Exploration Architecture

53. Sahara Forest Project

54. Why should
industry
care?

55. It doesn’t!

58. Lack of uptake
in biomimetics
within industry

60. Image credit: Chemistry Innovation Transfer Knowledge Network

61. Image credit: Stockholm Resilience Center

62. Problem

63. We don’t take up
biomimicry because we
can’t afford the time to
research biological
strategies for 6-12
months…
Lockhead Martin Skunkworks

66. Solution

67. Make money
Human-centred
design
Environment
Technical Systems

68. A fusion of
technologies that is
blurring the lines
between the physical,
digital, and biological
spheres.”
World Economic Forum

69. Biomimicry
as mainstream
design

70. Luck or
design?

72. What does success look like?

73. What does success look like?Network
analysis
Trade-off
analysis
Network
analysis
Trade-off
analysis

74. Algorithm-based
Additive
manufacturing

76. Source: http://textminingsolutions.co.uk/biomimicry_043019/tweet.php

79. Where does industry go?

80. UK
Industrial
Strategy

81. Ideas | People | Infrastructure | Business Environment | Places

82. AI & the
Data
Economy

83. Future
of
Mobility

84. Clean
Growth

85. Ageing
population

88. Takeaways

89. Industry 4.0
Best fit for
technologies
Systems and
processes

90. Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org