TY - JOUR TI - Imitation of Nature - The Key for Development T2 - Foresight and STI Governance IS - Foresight and STI Governance KW - evolution KW - state-of-the-art technologies KW - innovation development KW - innovative technologies AB - "We are now at the level of development of nanotechnology, which allows only improve the performance of existing materials, but do not give them a qualitatively new properties. The real breakthroughs come to pass when we learn to do what nature does - namely, to create artificial materials with complex hierarchical structure ", - argues Academician Mikhail Alafimov, Director of the Center for Photochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. UR - https://foresight-journal.hse.ru/en/2007-1-3/26552033.html PY - 2007 SP - 28-32 VL - 1