Title:
The shark's paintbrush : biomimicry and how nature is inspiring innovation / Jay Harman.
ISBN:
9781935952848
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Ashland, Oregon : White Cloud Press, [2013]
Physical Description:
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction : The nature of innovation -- A new golden age -- The next industrial revolution -- Going with the flow -- Catching the worldwide wave -- Biomimicry at work -- Secrets from the sea -- Scales and feathers -- The bee's knees -- Spores and seeds -- Wampum -- The nature of change -- The corporate jungle -- Dollar signs -- Reorganizing (your) business -- Epilogue.
Summary:
An introduction to the scientific practice through which natural models are inspiring innovative solutions to pressing industrial challenges examines such examples as wind turbines based on whale fins and cockroach-emulating prosthetic limbs.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn792880761
Availability:
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