Creative design inspired by biological knowledge: Technologies and methods

Abstract

Biological knowledge is becoming an important source of inspiration for developing creative solutions to engineering design problems and even has a huge potential in formulating ideas that can help firms compete successfully in a dynamic market. To identify the technologies and methods that can facilitate the development of biologically inspired creative designs, this research briefly reviews the existing biological-knowledge-based theories and methods and examines the application of biological-knowledge-inspired designs in various fields. Afterward, this research thoroughly examines the four dimensions of key technologies that underlie the biologically inspired design (BID) process. This research then discusses the future development trends of the BID process before presenting the conclusions.

Keywords

creative design / biologically inspired methods / key technologies

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Acknowledgements

This paper was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51675159 and 51475137), the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China (Grant No. E2015202029), China Scholarship Council and Hebei in the Graduate Student Innovation Ability Training Project.

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