The Innovation Algorithm
Subtitle: TRIZ, systematic innovation and technical creativity
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Technical Innovation Center
Published: March 1, 1999
Place of publication: Worcester, MA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780964074040
Subjects: Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Inventions; Inventors; Philosophy; TrizTools; Decision Making & Problem Solving
First sentence: Any theory of invention must study innovative creativity for the purpose of developing effective methods for solving inventive problems.
Table of contents: title: Preface : By way of introduction; title: Three questions : Altshuller's last interview; title: Three tributes; title: The innovation algorithm.; title: Section 1 : Technology of creativity. A needle in a hay stack; title: Levels of creativity; title: Inventing methods of inventing; title: Through knowledge, numbers; title: The ideal machine; title: Technical contradictions; title: Section 2 : The dialectic of invention.; title: Step-by-step; title: An alloy made of logic, intuition and skills; title: The inventor's instruments; title: How the algorithm works; title: Several exercise problems; title: "Patented" in the Paleozoic Era; title: Breaking an old structure; title: Section 3 : Man and algorithm.; title: Psychological barriers; title: The power of fantasy; title: Over barriers; title: Scientific structure of creative work; title: Appendixes.; title: Contradiction matrix with the 40 principles.; title: Using the contradiction matrix; title: The contradiction matrix; title: 40 principles; title: General tendencies of technical system evolution; title: Supplemental material.; title: Author's certificate; title: Altshuller's "TRIZ masters"; title: TRIZ providers; title: About the author, Genrich Altshuller; title: About the translators