Patented Biologically-inspired Technological Innovations: A Twenty Year View
✍ Scribed by Richard H.C. Bonser
- Publisher
- SciencePress (China)
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1672-6529
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✦ Synopsis
Publication rate of patents can be a useful measure of innovation and productivity in fields of science and technology. To assess the growth in industrially-important research, I conducted an appraisal of patents published between 1985 and 2005 on online databases using keywords chosen to select technologies arising as a result of biological inspiration.
Whilst the total number of patents increased over the period examined, those with biomimetic content had increased faster as a proportion of total patent publications. Logistic regression analysis reveals that we may be a little over half way through an initial innovation cycle inspired by biological systems.