TRIZ Method

Venue: Polo scientifico e tecnologico “Fabio Ferrari” (Povo 1 Building), via Sommarive 5, Povo - Room A103

• Davide Russo, University of Bergamo

Abstract

Innovation is now one of the most important competitive advantages for the growth and success of entrepreneurial activities, but the process of innovation cannot rely solely on chance or personal creativity.

Many large companies such as Samsung, Intel and Siemens have adopted since the early 90s methodologies for systematic innovation such as TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem solving created and developed by Altshuller since 1946. Nowadays, TRIZ has spread throughout the world not only in large companies, but also in small and medium enterprises, and is a mandatory subject in engineering courses of many Italian Universities.

TRIZ is a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of existing inventive patterns in the global patent literature. Thanks to the continuous growth of semantic tools applied to patent search, and the ease of access to the world patent database (which now has about 90 million documents) the potential of the method is even more surprising.

The seminar, aimed at students and young researchers, will teach the basics of the method and the potential of systematic innovation compared to more traditional practices. The seminar will also include practical examples and recent case studies with local companies that have tested the proposed tools.

Seminar organized in the context of IPSP2015 and open to all students and young researchers in technical or scientific fields of the University of Trento.

For more information about IPSP2015, please see the website: applications for brains are open!