I-Corps: Knowledge Access for Design Ideation in Bioinspired Invention

在过去的一代人中，生物灵感已经转变为一个重要的、广泛的和不断发展的设计运动，在建筑、能源、水、交通、通信、食品系统、卫生技术、制造和消费品等领域都有应用。Bioinspiration将大自然视为一个巨大的图书馆，拥有强大、高效、多功能和可持续的设计，并支持使用生物系统作为设计技术系统的灵感来源和评估标准。在过去的一代人中，生物灵感已经转变为一个重要的、广泛的和不断发展的设计运动。预计到2030年，生物灵感的全球经济价值将达到1.6万亿至2.1万亿美元。生物灵感运动的采用和发展受到大多数设计师是生物学新手这一事实的限制。这导致了两个主要的“痛苦”：缓慢、乏味、令人沮丧地寻找与设计问题相关的生物类似物，以及缓慢、不准确、不精确地理解生物系统。因此，需要从设计的角度获取生物学知识的信息系统，以及支持在概念设计中进行生物学类比过程的交互式工具。在这个项目中，I-Corps团队将调查交互式技术的商业可行性，以支持已开发的生物灵感发明的设计创意。一个成功的商业企业在生物灵感发明的设计创意知识获取方面具有对生物灵感商业产生变革性影响的潜力。

Over the last generation, bioinspiration has transformed into an important, widespread and growing design movement with applications in fields as varied as building, energy, water, transportation, communication, food systems, health technology, manufacturing, and consumer products. Bioinspiration views nature as a vast library of robust, efficient, multifunctional and sustainable designs, and espouses the use of biological systems as sources of inspiration as well as standards of evaluation for designing technological systems. Over the last generation, bioinspiration has transformed into an important, widespread and growing design movement.Bioinspiration is expected to have a global economic value of $1.6 trillion - $2.1 trillion by 2030. The adoption and growth of the bioinspiration movement is limited by the fact that most designers are novices in biology. This causes two major 'pains': slow, tedious, frustrating search for biological analogues relevant to a design problem, and slow, inaccurate and imprecise understanding of biological systems. Thus there is a need for information systems that provide access to biological knowledge from a design perspective, and interactive tools that support the process of making biological analogies in conceptual design. In this project, the I-Corps team will investigate the commercial viability of interactive technologies for supporting design ideation in bioinspired invention that has been developed. A successful commercial enterprise in knowledge access for design ideation in bioinspired invention has the potential for a transformative impact on the business of bioinspiration.