6. Glossary

Acceptance; acceptance

Study of the conditions that make a new technology usable and acceptable or not, and that lead humans to integrate it into their own uses.

Biomimicry; biomimicry

Biomimicry involves understanding the structure and function of living systems from biological, physical, chemical and materials science perspectives, and thereby uncovering principles and concepts that engineers can use in their innovation processes. It is by nature interdisciplinary.

Interdisciplinarity

Requires dialogue between researchers from different disciplines. To be genuine, this dialogue cannot be reduced to the borrowing of concepts, nor to the juxtaposition of knowledge specific to each discipline. Interdisciplinarity requires researchers to incorporate elements from outside...