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Innovation based on bioinspiration, that is biomimicry (‘copies nature’) or biomimetics (‘inspiration by nature’), has during the last decade been successfully implemented in many disciplines that have used nature to design practical materials and systems that imitate structure and function of native biological systems [1]. Since species on our planet have developed efficient strategies over billion years of evolution, nature is the oldest and most sagacious model, measure and mentor we could ask for in finding solutions for human problems. Nature (after billions of years of evolution) has resolved what is enduring efficient and effective; thus, human innovation should find inspiration from naturally occurring processes.