Profiles of inventors' technological competence are a valuable source of information for decision-making in research and development (R&D) management, e.g. concerning inventor assessment, human resource development and R&D team-building. In the following exposition, a new method of inventor...

Books reviewed: Insight in Innovation: Managing Innovation by Understanding the Laws of Innovation, Jan Verloop Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation, Stefan H. Thomke

Purpose: Identifying ideas for frugal innovations could substantially support engineers and managers in their work. Patents may be a promising source of ideas for frugal innovations. The purpose of this paper is to show how patents of this kind can be identified. Design/methodology/approach:...

Problem analysis is an important, but mainly neglected part of the problem-solving process. The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) offers an instrument called function analysis to conduct problem analysis, which is especially useful for exploring a problem. This process is based on an...

Many engineers and natural scientists in companies are using tools directly or indirectly related to the theory of inventive problem solving (abbreviation derived from the Russian title: TRIZ) by Altshuller (1984, 1996). Some of the TRIZ tools are based on the application of condensed technical...

This paper introduces six aspects of the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ), from conceptual basics to a framework for interdisciplinary research, and explains some of the specific terminology, such as inventive principles, standard solutions, substance-field-systems or contradictions....

The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (Russian acronym: TRIZ) provides several new ways for finding creative problem solutions. In addition to TRIZ as it is used for generating inventions, some of its instruments can be applied for strategic management support. In combination with patent...