For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
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Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.
Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.