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TRIZ – The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

Current Research and Trends in French Academic Institutions

  • Provides a comprehensive overview of various TRIZ-related research efforts in France
  • Covers various areas from research, education, and industry
  • Answers questions about both the successes and failures of TRIZ over the past 20 years
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Finding Innovative Technical Solutions in Patents Through Improved Evolution Trends

    • Ulises Valverde, Jean-Pierre Nadeau, Dominique Scaravetti
    Pages 1-42
  3. Modelling Industrial Design Contribution to Innovative Product or Service Design Process in a Highly Constrained Environment

    • Philippe Blanchard, Pascal Crubleau, Hervé Christofol, Simon Richir
    Pages 63-83
  4. Teaching Competence for Organising Problem-Centred Teaching-Learning Process

    • Renata Jonina, David Oget, Jacques Audran
    Pages 85-104
  5. Problem Graph for Warehousing Design

    • David Damand, Marc Barth, Elvia Lepori
    Pages 105-128
  6. Optimization Methods for Inventive Design

    • Lei Lin, Ivana Rasovska, Roland De Guio, Sébastien Dubois
    Pages 151-185
  7. Contribution to Formalizing Links Between Invention and Optimization in the Inventive Design Method

    • Thongchai Chinkatham, Dominique Knittel, Denis Cavallucci
    Pages 187-209
  8. Collaboration Framework for TRIZ-Based Open Computer-Aided Innovation

    • René Lopez Flores, Jean Pierre Belaud, Stéphane Negny, Jean Marc Le Lann, Guillermo Cortes Robles
    Pages 211-236
  9. System Dynamics Modeling and TRIZ: A Practical Approach for Inventive Problem Solving

    • Jesús Delgado-Maciel, Guillermo Cortes-Robles, Cuauhtémoc Sánchez-Ramírez, Giner Alor-Hernández, Jorge García-Alcaraz, Stéphane Negny
    Pages 237-260
  10. Conceptual Framework of an Intelligent System to Support Creative Workshops

    • Alex Gabriel, Davy Monticolo, Mauricio Camargo, Mario Bourgault
    Pages 261-284

About this book

The work presented here is generally intended for engineers, educators at all levels, industrialists, managers, researchers and political representatives. Offering a snapshot of various types of research conducted within the field of TRIZ in France, it represents a unique resource.

​It has been two decades since the TRIZ theory originating in Russia spread across the world. Every continent adopted it in a different manner – sometimes by glorifying its potential and its perspectives (the American way); sometimes by viewing it with mistrust and suspicion (the European way); and sometimes by adopting it as-is, without questioning it further (the Asian way). However, none of these models of adoption truly succeeded.

Today, an assessment of TRIZ practices in education, industry and research is necessary. TRIZ has expanded to many different scientific disciplines and has allowed young researchers to reexamine the state of research in their field. To this end, a call was sent out to all known francophone research laboratories producing regular research about TRIZ. Eleven of them agreed to send one or more of their postdoctoral researchers to present their work during a seminar, regardless of the maturity or completeness of their efforts. It was followed by this book project, presenting one chapter for every current thesis in order to reveal the breadth, the richness and the perspectives that research about the TRIZ theory could offer our society. The topics dealt with e.g. the development of new methods inspired by TRIZ, educational practices, and measuring team impact.

Editors and Affiliations

  • INSA Strasbourg , Strasbourg Cedex, France

    Denis Cavallucci

About the editor

Denis Cavallucci is Full Professor in Engineering of Innovation at the National Institute of Applied Science in Strasbourg, France. He is the head of the research team CSIP/DISIP (Design, Information Systems and Inventive Processes) which investigates theories, methods, and tools for formalizing inventive activities within industrial organizations. Denis Cavallucci is co-founder and past president of the European TRIZ Association ETRIA. Among his current research goals is to integrate artificial intelligence into design activities to systematize inventive processes.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: TRIZ – The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

  • Book Subtitle: Current Research and Trends in French Academic Institutions

  • Editors: Denis Cavallucci

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56593-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56592-7Published: 03 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85951-4Published: 03 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56593-4Published: 25 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Models and Principles, Innovation/Technology Management, Engineering Design, Software Engineering

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eBook USD 99.00
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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