Interesting Video On Drawing Innovation Inspiration From Nature

Thanks to Bill Fowlkes for pointing out the very nice segment from the TED folks.  In this talk, Robert Full of U.C. Berkeley provides some very interesting insights on how biomimicry can be an inspiration for innovation citing examples of animal locomotion.

There is certainly a lot of fruitful ground in this area.  I am seeing many companies gaining tremendous value from using innovation best practices to target areas of investigation and then finding high value conceptual paths from the examples of natural systems.

The video runs about 20 minutes.

Want to learn more about how companies are applying these concepts?  Here is a video podcast featuring John Bradford of Interface talking about how his company is doing it.

This video podcast runs about 12 minutes.