Future-proofing needs collaboration, innovation, education and inspiration | Guardian Sustainable Business Make no mistake, the transformation from a firm of the past to a firm of the future is challenging, especially while operating amid of a perfect storm of social, economic and environmental volatility. Successful transformation requires courage, not fear. The more we understand and explore our own business environments and wider business ecosystems (as well as our own inner motives and values) the more we find pathways for success – learning through doing, growth through experience, success through failure. Looking around us in nature and human nature, we find enablers to assist us; catalysts which aid and optimise the transformational journey. Collaboration There has been much written recently about collaboration and co-operation. Of course there has been, and always will be competition in life, yet evolution benefits far more from collaboration than it does from competition. Martin Nowak with Roger Highfield, Super Co-operators. Innovation Education Inspiration
EcoSapiens: Smart Solutions for a Living Planet - EcoSapiens blog Topologia Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Storia[modifica | modifica wikitesto] I sette ponti di Königsberg, uno dei primi problemi topologici L'antenata della topologia è la geometria antica. L'articolo di Eulero del 1736 sui Sette ponti di Königsberg [1] è visto come uno dei primi risultati che non dipendono da alcun tipo di misura, vale a dire uno dei primi risultati topologici. Georg Cantor, l'inventore della teoria degli insiemi, iniziò a studiare la teoria degli insiemi di punti nello spazio euclideo verso la fine del XIX secolo. Maurice Fréchet, unificando il lavoro sugli spazi di funzioni di Cantor, Vito Volterra, Arzelà, Hadamard, Ascoli e altri, nel 1906 introdusse il concetto di spazio metrico[3]. Nel 1914 Felix Hausdorff, generalizzando la nozione di spazio metrico, coniò il termine di spazio topologico e definì quello che oggi è detto spazio di Hausdorff[4]. Finalmente, nel 1922 Kuratovskij, con una ulteriore lieve generalizzazione, fornì il concetto odierno di spazio topologico. . in e
Angela Belcher | TEDxCaltech Angela Belcher is the W. M. Keck Professor of Energy, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biological Engineering at MIT. A materials chemist, her primary research focus is evolving new materials for energy, electronics and the environment. She received her B.S. Ph.D., and did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Thereafter she became assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin, until joining the MIT faculty in 2002.
7 Questions to Assess Your Business Model Design Ultimately, customers are the only relevant judges of your business model. However, even before you test your model in the market, you can assess its design with 7 questions that go well beyond the conventional focus on products and market segments. First things first. In order to assess your business model you should sketch it out on the Business Model Canvas outlined in the video below. If you want to know more about the Canvas and how to use it you can read Business Model Generation of which 70 pages are available for free on our website. Assessing the basics Every business model has a product and/or service at its center that focuses on a customer’s job-to-be-done. First, ask yourself how well your Value Proposition is getting your target customer’s job done. That’s it as to the basics. 1. The time, effort, or budget a customer has to spend to switch from one product or service provider to another is called “switching costs”. 2. An impressive example of scalability is Facebook. 3.
Allison Alberts on biomimicry - sustainable solutions inspired by nature | Human World Biomimicry is design inspired by nature. With 7 billion humans on Earth today – and demand for natural resources growing, while supplies remain fixed – people are looking for innovative ideas to help companies, consumers, and the environment. Scientists are realizing that many ideas for a more sustainable world can come from nature itself. Biomimicry studies nature’s best ideas, and applies them to solving human problems. Lotus leaves inspired a new self-cleaning paint. She gave a simple example, involving the common lotus leaf. The microscopic structure of a lotus leaf allows water droplets to bead up and roll off, washing away even the smallest specks of dirt. Dr. Buildings painted with Lotusan actually clean themselves every time it rains, which eliminates the need for harsh chemicals or detergent. And that is biomimicry. Termite mounds are self-cooling. Termite mounds, which are self-cooling, inspired highrise buildings with no air-conditioning. Dr. Dr.
Theosophy article: "The Life Principle" by Blavatsky A FEW years back a very interesting controversy raged between several scientists of reputation. Some of these held that spontaneous generation was a fact in nature, whilst others proved the contrary; to the effect that, as far as experiments went, there was found to be biogenesis, or generation of life from previously existing life, and never the production of any form of life from non-living matter. An erroneous assumption was made in the first instance that heat, equal to the boiling point of water, destroyed all life organisms; but by taking hermetically sealed vessels containing infusions, and subjecting them to such or a greater degree of heat, it was shown that living organisms did appear even after the application of so much heat. Along with the fact of biogenesis, we must note, however, Mr. Tracing life downwards we ultimately reach "protoplasm," called by Huxley "the physical basis of life," a colourless, jelly-like substance, absolutely homogeneous without parts or structure.
Biomimicry Institute - Home The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and imitation of nature’s remarkably efficient designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators of all ages who can use those models to create sustainable technologies. The Institute was founded in 2006 by science writer and consultant Janine Benyus in response to overwhelming interest in the subject following the publication of her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. See Janine’s TED Talk video for her groundbreaking introduction to biomimicry. Today, the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute focuses on three areas: Developing our online database of nature’s solutions, AskNature.org.Hosting our annual, international Biomimicry Student Design Challenge.Growing our Global Network of regional biomimicry practitioners. See examples of biomimicry in action! Meet executive director Beth Rattner, our staff, and the Institute board.
John David Barrow Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. John David Barrow (Londra, 29 novembre 1952) è un cosmologo inglese, professore di matematica all'Università di Cambridge. Biografia[modifica | modifica sorgente] Nel 2006 è stato insignito del Premio Templeton per "i suoi scritti sulla relazione tra la vita e l'universo, e sulla natura della consapevolezza umana [che] ha prodotto nuove prospettive sulle questioni centrali riguardo alla scienza e alla religione". Per il teatro ha scritto lo spettacolo Infinities (2002) che ha esordito al Teatro Piccolo di Milano, poi a Valencia, conseguendo il Premio teatrale Ubu 2002 come spettacolo dell'anno. Opere principali[modifica | modifica sorgente] La mano sinistra della creazione (con Joseph Silk) - Mondadori, 1985Il mondo dentro il mondo - Adelphi, 1991Teorie del Tutto. Voci correlate[modifica | modifica sorgente] Altri progetti[modifica | modifica sorgente] Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica sorgente] (EN) Pagina personale di John D.
L’économie à l'ère de l'écologie Si les animaux, les plantes, ou les insectes pouvaient parler, qu’auraient-ils à nous dire, de quoi nous entretiendraient-ils ? D’économie et de biomimétisme, bien entendu ! C’est ainsi qu’au cours d’une promenade en forêt au détour d’un chemin, l’auteur – ou plutôt le modeste rapporteur – de ce petit ouvrage fort instructif fait une rencontre inopinée : un Cerambix cerdo. Ce coléoptère, également appelé Grand capricorne, non seulement se trouve doué de parole mais se pique d’économie et entend donner une leçon de (sur)vie aux hommes dont voici quelques éléments de démonstration. © Wildproject Editions Après avoir passé des milliers d’années à vouloir maîtriser la nature, l’asservir même, pour qu’elle réponde à ses besoins, l’homme, croyant bien faire et rêvant à un monde meilleur a “cru devoir éliminer le hasard, ce moteur du vivant”, dit l’insecte. Download as PDF
The nature of technology: what it is ... - Google Libri 10 Amazing Scientific Advances That Came From Copying Nature It’s not difficult to deduce that airplanes are based on birds — some of the better pilots in the animal kingdom. After 3.8 billion years and a lot of trial and error, animals have become astoundingly good at a variety of tasks (humans still take the cake in the “watching stuff and getting fat category”). As a result, the field of Biomimicry has ballooned in recent years as scientists and companies are discovering new and interesting ways to steal Nature’s intellectual property. Bullet-Proof Skin Image Source Probably since elementary school you’ve heard stories of the magical properties of spider silk. Chimps, the Oldest Pharmacists Image Source Chimpanzees have evolved to seek out therapeutic cures found naturally in their environment. Unfortunately, this only works for chimpanzees, as something delicious to a house cat (like its own vomit) might be toxic (or just disgusting and pointless) for humans to consume. Termites are Amazing Architects Image Source Solar Cells Based on Leaves