Is your team seeking new innovation opportunities?

We can help connect you with the right biological intelligence to find a solution.

When a Fortune 500 consumer goods company needed better resealable packaging, we helped solve one of its most vexing challenges by asking, “What would nature do here?”

The innovation process began with our biologists and design strategists identifying more than 60 biological strategies and mechanisms that could help create a resealable packaging solution that was intuitive to use, cost effective, and avoids product contamination.

ENGAGING THE BRILLIANCE OF NATURE’S DESIGNS

This work challenged us to ask nature many questions, including how does nature: maintain flavor and freshness, protect during transport, provide barrier to light, moisture, and vapor. The successes yielded a set of mentors that allowed a new way of thinking to blossom within the company.

Using biomimicry allows our clients to look at challenges in an entirely different way, greatly increasing the creative scope for finding solutions. Our process guarantees fresh perspective, and can stand alone or map to existing innovation processes.

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Not only did our final report feature nine promising biological solutions and 16 biological champions–including the aortic heart valve and the Venus Fly Trap–the work inspired a new way of thinking within the company.

The biological intelligence provided was used as the starting point to engage a university-based design team. To date, three patents have resulted from the work.

We work with teams across all sectors. View detailed case studies and industry-specific examples in your sector here. If your team has a specific challenge in need of an innovative solution…

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Does your team have a building-design opportunity?

We can help you achieve resilient design by accessing nature’s proven strategies.

When a design team, including architects, local stakeholders, and the U.S. Forest Service, needed a common vision for a resilient visitors center that truly reflected its surroundings in the desert of Nevada, we used biomimicry to provide that unifying mindset.

GOING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY-AS-USUAL

This work challenged us to ask nature a wide-range of questions, including how does nature conserve water, regulate temperature, maintain physical integrity, communicate and cooperate, and provide ecosystem services. The successes yielded a united design team that produced a facility incorporating numerous biomimetic elements and exhibits explaining them.

We collaborate with developers, architects, engineers, and design teams to achieve resilient built environment design by accessing nature’s proven strategies defined through 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D. Our ecologically-inspired insights can be delivered at any stage of the architectural, engineering, and planning processes.

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First, our team identified 24 local species that were particularly well adapted to deal with challenges like thermoregulation and water conservation, as well as cooperation and communication.

We then helped translate the biological intelligence and integrate it into the project using our unique process that met the needs of all stakeholders.

The resulting Spring Mountain Visitor Gateway models several adaptations, including of Black-tailed jackrabbit’s ability to achieve greater energy efficiency and temperature regulation.

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Looking to enhance the sustainability of a product, organization, or service?

We can introduce you to nature’s deep design principles that help create conditions conducive to life.

Biomimicry has become a cornerstone that helps Interface Inc. achieve its industry-leading sustainability initiatives. At the beginning of the company’s journey using biomimicry, they turned to us to help design better flooring.

Our team helped identify biological intelligence that resulted in the creation of a new a carpet line inspired by random pattern formation in nature. Entropy carpet tiles minimize dye use and cut down on installation waste.

EMPLOY DESIGN LESSONS FROM NATURE

This work challenged us to ask nature how to attach, and how to leverage gravity. The successes included the production of several products, each that had an important sustainability impacts, including reducing Interface's greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40% and reducing their water intake by 80%.

To be truly sustainable, a company, it’s product or services, must create conditions conducive to life. Our methodology allows biomimicry to be applied to create new products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are inherently sustainable, effective and efficient, reduce materials and waste, increase revenue and brand loyalty.

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In record time, Entropy™/I2 became Interface’s top-selling product and reduced accumulation costs by millions of dollars thanks to waste elimination.

Starting with inspiration from the gecko, and ultimately emulating leveraging gravity, Interface was further inspired to create TacTiles®, a glue-free carpet installation system with an environmental footprint that’s more than 90% lower than traditional carpet adhesives.

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How to Get Started: Biomimicry 3.8 services

Biomimicry Immersion Programs

From designers at Nike to R&D teams from Johnson & Johnson to university students looking to jumpstart their careers, Biomimicry 3.8 has been inspiring the next generation of change-makers through its week-long immersion workshops since 2002. A visionary kind of professional training, our immersion workshops give participants a dive deep into the biomimicry methodology, providing hands-on application training under the guidance of our expert instructors.
Tuition for biomimicry workshops and trainings starts at $3,500 with discounts and scholarships offered.
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Introductory Workshop for Your Organization

A common path many of those new to biomimicry take is to bring our experts to their organization for our introductory biomimicry workshop. This half-day interactive workshop delivers the foundational elements of biomimicry to your team so they can begin to understand how it can be applied to benefit your organization. This nature-inspired workshop is designed to orient participants around the practice and methodology of doing biomimicry, using case studies and references relevant to your organization and industry. Following the workshop, you and your team will be prepared to discuss opportunities around how to apply biomimicry to your organization. Workshop participants receive a digital copy of the Biomimicry Resource Handbook.
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Custom Biomimicry Workshop

Is your team stuck on a challenge? In need of new innovation? Navigating a merger or acquisition? Our custom workshops build on the introductory content, providing the opportunity to craft an experience that can target specific solutions, including lessons learned from nature’s best practices (honed during 3.8 billion years of successes) focused specifically on your challenge and/or opportunity. Your team will gain an entirely new perspective that can inform innovative strategies and solutions across your organization. Following the workshop, you and your team will be well-prepared for deeper engagements with biomimicry and will better understand how you can best use the suite of other innovation services we offer. Workshop participants receive a digital copy of the Biomimicry Resource Handbook.
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Innovation Services

For more than 15 years, B3.8 has been working with the change-makers at Fortune 500 companies across 25 different industries to drive groundbreaking innovation. Our team of experts and extensive database of nature’s technologies enables us to work with you to deliver truly innovation strategies and solutions based on 3.8 billion years of R&D found in nature. Biomimicry has been proven to be an effective method to de-risk your innovation process while providing new innovation tools that engage employees through the opportunity to reconnect to nature and deliver inherently sustainable solutions. Whether you’re working on a built environment project or seeking innovation for a specific challenge, biomimicry can support the design of resilient cities, create energy-efficient buildings, increase cost-saving manufacturing processes, and help you create groundbreaking products. Each consulting offering is aligned to meet your organization’s specific needs and innovation processes.
Consulting package pricing varies depending on scope
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Accredited Biomimicry Degrees

Thanks to the resounding success of its professional training programs, in 2014 Biomimicry 3.8 partnered with Arizona State University to create the world’s first Master’s of Science in Biomimicry and Graduate Certificate program through ASU Online. All coursework is delivered by Biomimicry 3.8 instructors, who designed the program and curriculum to offer multiple pathways to support those looking to build and/or differentiate themselves in their sectors.
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Consulting Services

We bring 3.8 billion years of R&D to your design table

Is your team seeking new innovation opportunities?

When a Fortune 500 consumer goods company needed better resealable packaging, we helped solve one of its most vexing challenges by asking, “What would nature do here?”

ENGAGING THE BRILLIANCE OF NATURE’S DESIGNS

Does your team have a building-design opportunity?

When a design team, including architects, local stakeholders, and the U.S. Forest Service, needed a common vision for a resilient visitors center that truly reflected its surroundings in the desert of Nevada, we used biomimicry to provide that unifying mindset.

GOING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY-AS-USUAL

Looking to enhance the sustainability of a product, organization, or service?

Biomimicry has become a cornerstone that helps Interface Inc. achieve its industry-leading sustainability initiatives. At the beginning of the company’s journey using biomimicry, they turned to us to help design better flooring.

EMPLOY DESIGN LESSONS FROM NATURE