Simon Dewulf

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This paper describes a TRIZ-like innovation methodology; Innovation Logic. The three steps of the method are WISH; what are the desired values, SHOP: where can areas be identified for tech transfer and CREATE: variation of properties for better function. The paper demonstrates the benefit of using innovation logic within the application of AI and t...

This is the sixth annual report of WTSP (World TRIZ-related Sites Project). We have already built the World Catalogs of Around-TRIZ (i.e., Creative Problem-Solving Methods in general around TRIZ) Websites (with 419 sites) by September 2022. But the World Catalogs of TRIZ Websites was made with only 62 Websites at that time, due to the lack of volun...

Instead of a problem looking for a solution, this is where a company develops a certain technology, say a foam metal, and reviews the properties as promising and novel and then gets to the part where one says, who needs it. A solution looking for problems. Instead of necessity is the mother of invention, here invention is the mother of necessity. E...

World TRIZ-related Site Project (WTSP) is a volunteer-based international project working to build Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Websites in the World. It aims at creating a reliable information resource in the field of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies in general. We collect good websites widely and list the selected ones with brief or clo...

This is the 4th report of the World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP). After the submission of our ETRIA TFC2020 paper (May, 2020) we have made two big achievements: (1) Completing the Beta Edition of the World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ sites and around-TRIZ sites (Jul. 2020). (2) Presenting the WTSP activities and outputs at 4 international and 1 dome...

This paper introduces, examines and confirms that text patterns that identify properties, functions, values, solutions in patent literature. Text patterns can augment the full innovation logic process. The research proposed the use of adjectives for property identification and verbs for functions. It is furthermore shown that there is a context ind...

This paper introduces, examines and confirms that text patterns that identify properties, functions, values, solutions in patent literature. Text patterns can augment the full innovation logic process. The research proposed the use of adjectives for property identification and verbs for functions. It is furthermore shown that there is a context ind...

This is the 3rd report of the World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP). As the results of 2 years activities, we have completed the First Edition (Oct. 2019) of the World WTSP Catalogs and are now working to enhance them further. The Catalogs have 2 main products. (A) World WTSP Catalog of TRIZ Sites has been built with the site data contributed fro...

We started the World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP) in Dec. 2017 for the purpose of building catalogs of TRIZ-related Web sites in the World. Getting support by a number of TRZ colleagues, we started the project to achieve by voluntary cooperation of many (hopefully about 100) TRIZ colleagues coming from various countries. Our basic strategy was to buil...

For these three decades, TRIZ has been proliferated much across the world beyond ex-USSR to the extent that various activities, achievements, and accumulated knowledge are not viewable easily. We know that many researchers and practitioners are working on TRIZ actively and presenting/posting their activities and results in conferences, journals, We...

Although Biologically-Inspired Design is gaining popularity, state-of-the-art approaches for systematic Biologically-Inspired Design are still limited by the required interactive work which is proportional to the applied biological database size. This interactive work, depending on the adopted methodology, might encompass model instantiation for ea...

As more and more people are increasingly turning to nature for design inspiration, tools and methodologies are developed to support the systematic bioideation process. State-of-the-art approaches struggle with expanding their knowledge bases because of interactive work required by humans per biological strategy. As an answer to this persistent chal...

This paper presents a bioinspiration approach that is able to scalably leverage the ever-growing body of biological information in natural-language format. The ideation tool AskNature, developed by the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute, is expanded with an algorithm for automated classification of biological strategies into the Biomimicry Taxonomy, a three-...

TRIZ emerged from systematic analysis of patents, a process involving the mapping of innovative patents to extracted generic problems and generic inventive principles. During problem solving, TRIZ users, relying on their TRIZ skills, map their specific problem to a generic problem, solve it via TRIZ tools, and map back to a specific solution. A met...

Computer based methods, systems and interfaces for analyzing machine readable data repositories having text documents, and for generation of new product specifications, for evaluation of these specifications and for the generation of new product designs and products therefrom. Language analysis of the data repository results in a list of properties...

In the context of a larger effort to develop a tool that supports ideation in the early stage of Biologically-Inspired Design, this paper describes how the first important research question is tackled: any scalable approach towards such a tool requires a large corpus of biological strategies. This corpus should contain as much of the world's knowle...

Although Biologically-Inspired Design (BID) is gaining popularity, state-of-the-art approaches for systematic BID are still limited by the required interactive work which is proportional to the applied biological database size. This interactive work, depending on the adopted methodology, might encompass model instantiation for each strategy in the...

During problem solving, TRIZ users map a specific problem to a generic problem, solve it via TRIZ tools, and map back to a specific solution, a process relying heavily on their TRIZ skills. To aid less skilled users, a methodology and algorithm are proposed that, through identification of specific word categories in patents, analysis of term-term c...

This paper builds up a procedure to connect previously unrelated domains in order to transfer existing knowledge to a given guest domain. The connections are based on properties: (what is or has) and functions (what does or undergoes). The abstraction of any system in its property - function strings reveals a system or 'product DNA' a base for char...

Since few experiments prove the effectiveness of idea generation methods and tools, designers often base their choice on anecdotal evidence or personal experience. However, recently developed metrics enable a more fine-grained analysis of an ideation method's effectiveness. This research presents the results of applying such metrics on the ideation...

Like most front-end design methodologies, TRIZ is characterized by the need of an abstraction level to apply the methodology. Users of these methodologies rely on intrinsic skills to map a specific situation to a abstracted one, analyze it through the methodology, and, if applicable, map it back to a specific situation. A methodology and algorithm...

Although supported by extensive anecdotal evidence, only recently design-by-analogy has been proven to occur often in problem solving and idea generation. However, the circumstances which facilitate problem solving and creative idea generation by analogy are not well understood and most analogies are not developed by applying a formal design-by-ana...

Many applications of Biologically-Inspired Design (BID) are well-known and research is increasingly focusing on methodologies towards systematic BID. However, currently no ideation tool exists that is able to leverage the large textual biological resources in a scalable way to propose a selection of biological strategies that are interesting for a...

Like most front-end design and problem solving methodologies, TRIZ requires users to abstract their specific system or problem, analyze it through the methodology, and, if applicable, map it back to a specific situation. A methodology and algorithm are proposed that can eliminate this subjective and arduous mapping by formalizing automatically iden...

TRIZ trends describe the evolutionary status of a system by identifying the trend phases, and assist in predicting improvements by identifying evolutionary potential. This process encompasses analyzing and categorizing patents in known trend phases, relying on intrinsic skills of a TRIZ expert, and depicting the results on an evolutionary potential...

Although the classical Contradiction Matrix remains a conceptually very important element of the TRIZ toolkit, its age often means that users have difficulty using it successfully across a wide range of modern-day problem settings. The paper discusses a systematic programme of patent and science based research that has culminated in the production...

Built on over 1500 person years of research and the scientific study of a significant proportion of the world's strongest problem solutions, the Russian originated Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, TRIZ is the biggest study of human creativity ever conducted. The paper describes the pioneering research being undertaken to update and advance this...

The paper builds on initial research work to define and develop the concept of evolutionary potential - defined as the difference between the relative maturity of the current system, and the point where it has reached the limits of each of the evolution trends - in order to increase the effectiveness and value offered to the user. Several new areas...

The paper describes the revolutionary new systematic innovation method implementation, CreaTRIZ. The foundations of the method are built on the Russian- initiated Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, TRIZ. The paper explores how CreaTRIZ overcomes the fundamentally long learning curves traditionally experienced with TRIZ, and offers methods for def...

Business concept innovation (BCI) is the process of re-inventing the way organisations conduct their business. It is being cited as THE major success factor that will determine whether organisations will be successful or not in the current economic climate of rapid change and major uncertainty. At this point in time there is no theory underpinning...

person years of systematic innovation research has shown that the strongest solutions and ideas are the ones in which the problem or opportunity owner has successfully challenged the conflicts and trade-offs that others have assumed to be fundamental. The paper describes the creation and application of a new Contradiction Elimination tool aimed spe...

An evolved version of TRIZ containing a series of generically predictable technology and business evolution trends uncovered from the systematic analysis of patents, academic journals and business texts. The current state of the art now brings the total number of generic technical trends to over 30, and the number of business trends to over 20. The...