Systematic Creativity and TRIZ Basics

About

Introduction: creativity, invention, innovation. Creativity obstacles and supporters. Place of creativity in modern economy. Invention and Innovation. Basic institutions of invention: know-how, patent, public good (paper). Thinking inertia and other invention killers. Tools for creativity support and place of TRIZ among them. Biomimetics. Definition of Function. Function Oriented Search. Axiom of IdealFi-nal Resultin TRIZ. Formulation, examples. Operation time, opera-tion zone. Invention as contradiction elimination.Engineering contradictions and elimination standards. Altshuller Matrix. Physical contradictions and elimination standards. Separation principles. About 200 creative problems, case studies, examples and projects are discussed/solved through the course. The course is proposed to be suitable also for doctoral studies.

Course leader

Professor Leonid Chechurin, LUT School of Engineering Science.

Target group

M.Sc. and PhD students

Course aim

Aims: After having completed the course, the student should be able to:
- recognizethe roleandplace of creativity and inventingin in-novationprocess/business,
- identify inventive problems in the complex process of product development,
- Apply several tools for systematic idea generation (Function modelling, Ideal final result, Function-oriented search, Con-tradiction analysis, biomimetics),
- Actstep-by-step, systematically when creative and out-of-box ideas are needed.

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