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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16848631 |
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- <p>Biomimicry—the practice of emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies—has yielded transformative innovations across sectors, from energy-efficient transport to advanced materials and medical devices. Yet this rapid growth in nature-inspired innovation unfolds against the backdrop of an accelerating biodiversity crisis. This paradox highlights an “innovation debt” to nature: humanity benefits from ecosystems’ intellectual capital while their degradation undermines the very knowledge base upon which future solutions depend. This perspective advances a profit-sharing mechanism to reinvest a portion of biomimicry-derived revenues into biodiversity conservation and restoration. Grounded in the semiconducting principle—which permits conversion of environmental value into monetary gain but prohibits monetary gain from offsetting environmental loss—the model operationalizes benefit-sharing through a five-step process: identification, contribution calculation, payment and pooling, allocation, and accountability. Contributions, proportionate to commercial success, would be directed to priority projects, with allocations reflecting both the origin of inspiration and conservation urgency. The proposed framework can help address the biodiversity finance gap, embed nature as a stakeholder in enterprise, and foster an eco-surplus culture in which business success and ecological regeneration advance together. In doing so, it creates a feedback loop where the more we innovate like nature, the more we invest in sustaining it.</p>