BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Our times demand innovation and a paradigm shift. Biomimicry, which proposes a new and regenerating approach, and which already has a network of innovative, motivated and exciting players, deserved its annual meeting. This is due to a combination of trends and phenomena:

• Biomimicry is in the spotlight. The media is talking about it more and more, applications are developing, the ecosystem is growing and getting organised.
• Biomimicry and bio-inspired approaches are accelerating, the network is becoming more structured and exchanges are increasingly felt to be necessary.
• All the players demand and expect better interactions, collegiality, multiculturalism, synergies and collaborations between scientific disciplines, between large groups and start-ups, between private structures and public bodies, etc.
• Biomimicry certainly consists of doing research in a different way, taking inspiration from the living world to take advantage of the solutions and inventions produced by nature... but nothing will be done by remaining in one's own silos, nothing will be done without the capacity, the ability, to also draw inspiration from others, without opportunities to meet and share.