Richard James MacCowan
@rmaccowan.bsky.social
Founder & Biofuturist @ Biomimicry Innovation Lab
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The boundary layer we keep skipping
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The boundary layer we keep skipping
Turn collisions into throughput.
New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have earned the Best Presentation award at ACM SIGGRAPH for mapping how ant swarms avoid gridlock.
The findings transfer directly to your robot fleets and factory floors.
New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have earned the Best Presentation award at ACM SIGGRAPH for mapping how ant swarms avoid gridlock.
The findings transfer directly to your robot fleets and factory floors.
October 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Turn collisions into throughput.
New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have earned the Best Presentation award at ACM SIGGRAPH for mapping how ant swarms avoid gridlock.
The findings transfer directly to your robot fleets and factory floors.
New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers have earned the Best Presentation award at ACM SIGGRAPH for mapping how ant swarms avoid gridlock.
The findings transfer directly to your robot fleets and factory floors.
Everyone celebrates biomimicry as inherently sustainable.
Almost nobody questions it.
This 2009 paper by Marshall & Lozeva keeps hitting my feed. And it exposes problems we're STILL ignoring in 2025.
Almost nobody questions it.
This 2009 paper by Marshall & Lozeva keeps hitting my feed. And it exposes problems we're STILL ignoring in 2025.
October 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Everyone celebrates biomimicry as inherently sustainable.
Almost nobody questions it.
This 2009 paper by Marshall & Lozeva keeps hitting my feed. And it exposes problems we're STILL ignoring in 2025.
Almost nobody questions it.
This 2009 paper by Marshall & Lozeva keeps hitting my feed. And it exposes problems we're STILL ignoring in 2025.
From reactive fixes to self regulating systems
Stop chasing faults after deployment. Build predictive behaviours, integrate feedback across scales, and validate empirically before scale-up.
Stop chasing faults after deployment. Build predictive behaviours, integrate feedback across scales, and validate empirically before scale-up.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
From reactive fixes to self regulating systems
Stop chasing faults after deployment. Build predictive behaviours, integrate feedback across scales, and validate empirically before scale-up.
Stop chasing faults after deployment. Build predictive behaviours, integrate feedback across scales, and validate empirically before scale-up.
Turn cuts into contracts.
$1.3 TRILLION in R&D spending.
Yet innovation growth just hit 2.9% - the WEAKEST since 2010.
Here's what the Global Innovation Index 2025 by the World Intellectual Property Organization reveals about the funding paradox every UK R&D team needs to understand:
$1.3 TRILLION in R&D spending.
Yet innovation growth just hit 2.9% - the WEAKEST since 2010.
Here's what the Global Innovation Index 2025 by the World Intellectual Property Organization reveals about the funding paradox every UK R&D team needs to understand:
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Turn cuts into contracts.
$1.3 TRILLION in R&D spending.
Yet innovation growth just hit 2.9% - the WEAKEST since 2010.
Here's what the Global Innovation Index 2025 by the World Intellectual Property Organization reveals about the funding paradox every UK R&D team needs to understand:
$1.3 TRILLION in R&D spending.
Yet innovation growth just hit 2.9% - the WEAKEST since 2010.
Here's what the Global Innovation Index 2025 by the World Intellectual Property Organization reveals about the funding paradox every UK R&D team needs to understand:
Turn rankings into pilots.
The Global Innovation Index 2025 just dropped.
And it reveals something SHOCKING about where innovation actually happens.
The Global Innovation Index 2025 just dropped.
And it reveals something SHOCKING about where innovation actually happens.
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Turn rankings into pilots.
The Global Innovation Index 2025 just dropped.
And it reveals something SHOCKING about where innovation actually happens.
The Global Innovation Index 2025 just dropped.
And it reveals something SHOCKING about where innovation actually happens.
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing. -Lao Tzu
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing. -Lao Tzu
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
-Plato
-Plato
April 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
-Plato
-Plato
In London for the weekend for work for a client.
Discussing homeostasis and agency from biology to business change.
My brain is fried so I’m heading to bed before 9 pm.
Discussing homeostasis and agency from biology to business change.
My brain is fried so I’m heading to bed before 9 pm.
January 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
In London for the weekend for work for a client.
Discussing homeostasis and agency from biology to business change.
My brain is fried so I’m heading to bed before 9 pm.
Discussing homeostasis and agency from biology to business change.
My brain is fried so I’m heading to bed before 9 pm.
The Disrupt Dispatch Issue 26 - News on Nature-inspired Innovation!
🗞️ Read all about it!
Market insights, case studies, books and videos from the world of nature-inspired innovation.
open.substack.com/pub/disruptd...
#biomimicry #bionics #biomimetics
🗞️ Read all about it!
Market insights, case studies, books and videos from the world of nature-inspired innovation.
open.substack.com/pub/disruptd...
#biomimicry #bionics #biomimetics
January 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Disrupt Dispatch Issue 26 - News on Nature-inspired Innovation!
🗞️ Read all about it!
Market insights, case studies, books and videos from the world of nature-inspired innovation.
open.substack.com/pub/disruptd...
#biomimicry #bionics #biomimetics
🗞️ Read all about it!
Market insights, case studies, books and videos from the world of nature-inspired innovation.
open.substack.com/pub/disruptd...
#biomimicry #bionics #biomimetics
🎄 Day 24: Advent Calender from Biomimicry Innovation Lab ☃️
THE STATE OF NATURE-INSPIRED INNOVATION
Nature-inspired innovation represents an interdisciplinary approach that transforms biological models into practical technological solutions.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
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THE STATE OF NATURE-INSPIRED INNOVATION
Nature-inspired innovation represents an interdisciplinary approach that transforms biological models into practical technological solutions.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
🦋
December 24, 2024 at 12:49 PM
🎄 Day 24: Advent Calender from Biomimicry Innovation Lab ☃️
THE STATE OF NATURE-INSPIRED INNOVATION
Nature-inspired innovation represents an interdisciplinary approach that transforms biological models into practical technological solutions.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
🦋
THE STATE OF NATURE-INSPIRED INNOVATION
Nature-inspired innovation represents an interdisciplinary approach that transforms biological models into practical technological solutions.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
🦋
Day 23: Advent Calendar from Biomimicry Innovation Lab
Nature's Light-Trapping Marvels: From Butterfly Wings to Next-Gen Solar Tech
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #design #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
🦋
Nature's Light-Trapping Marvels: From Butterfly Wings to Next-Gen Solar Tech
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #design #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
🦋
December 23, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Day 23: Advent Calendar from Biomimicry Innovation Lab
Nature's Light-Trapping Marvels: From Butterfly Wings to Next-Gen Solar Tech
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #design #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
🦋
Nature's Light-Trapping Marvels: From Butterfly Wings to Next-Gen Solar Tech
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #design #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
🦋
Day 22: Advent Calendar from Biomimicry Innovation Lab
Ecological Engineering & Ecosystem Restoration
This book represents a groundbreaking approach to integrating human society with natural environments for mutual benefit.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biology #science
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Ecological Engineering & Ecosystem Restoration
This book represents a groundbreaking approach to integrating human society with natural environments for mutual benefit.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biology #science
🦋
December 22, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Day 22: Advent Calendar from Biomimicry Innovation Lab
Ecological Engineering & Ecosystem Restoration
This book represents a groundbreaking approach to integrating human society with natural environments for mutual benefit.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biology #science
🦋
Ecological Engineering & Ecosystem Restoration
This book represents a groundbreaking approach to integrating human society with natural environments for mutual benefit.
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biology #science
🦋
Day 21: Advent Calendar from Biomimicry Innovation Lab
Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) led by the The University of Freiburg
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
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Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) led by the The University of Freiburg
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
🦋
December 21, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Day 21: Advent Calendar from Biomimicry Innovation Lab
Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) led by the The University of Freiburg
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
🦋
Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) led by the The University of Freiburg
www.linkedin.com/posts/biomim...
#adventcalendar #biomimetics #natureinspiredinnovation #engineering #biomimicry #biology #science
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