TRIZ Links

Selected 10 TRIZ Links in Japan 

  Selected 30 TRIZ Links in Japan
  Extended 100 TRIZ Links in Japan

Selected 50 TRIZ Links in the World

  Extended 120 TRIZ Links in the World

Compiled by Toru Nakagawa (OGU),
Apr. 12, 2008 and May 1, 2008

[Posted: Apr. 13, 2008; Updated: May 4; May 25, 2008]

buttons guide you to the pages written in Japanese.

 

Note (Toru Nakagawa, Oct. 17, 2014):  Sorry but this page is not up-to-date, even though it still works in most parts.  Updating this page needs a lot of work.  I wish to get several people in different countries for updating this in collaboration. 

 

Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Apr. 12, 2008)

Seven years have passed since I built this page last time.  Organizations and IT situations have changed much.  This has urged me to update this page for many years.  After spending about 10 days I am now ready to post the 'TRIZ Links in Japan' in my Japanese pages in its extended form.  This English main page is also renewed to post the 'Selected TRIZ Links in Japan and in the World'.  'Extended 100 TRIZ Links in Japan' is posted in the Japanese page; because those Web sites are written only in Japanese, the Extended List will not be translated into English. . 

(Toru Nakagawa, May 4, 2008)  The 'Extended TRIZ Links in the World' is now ready after 3 more weeks of struggling.  In this page, Selected 50 Sites are listed with some annotation.  In the separate page, Extended List of 120 TRIZ Sites sre shown with some more details of annotation.  They are arranged in the order of their geometrical regions/countries. 

In the Japanese page, 80 papers and articles written by Japanese industrial and university users are listed. The list may be useful to understand how those users learned, applied, and promoted TRIZ in their organizations. 

 

Top of this page Selected 10 TRIZ Links (Japan) Selected 30 TRIZ Links (Japan) Extended 100 TRIZ Links (Japan) (in Japnanese) Users TRIZ articles (Japan) Selected 50 TRIZ Links (World) Extended 120 TRIZ Links (World)  Japanese Page

Selected 10 TRIZ Links in Japan

TRIZ Home Page in Japan  (Editor: Toru Nakagawa)   http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/     (in English and in Japanese)

English pages: http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/ 
Japanese pages: http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/

A volunteer-based 'Public Web site' in TRIZ in Japan.  This is an information hub in TRIZ, posting many introductory as well as professional articles, written and contributed by many authors in Japan and from overseas, besides the Editor himself.  Many important articles are posted in English and in Japanese, in parallel.  Nakagawa's Personal Reports of TRIZCONs, ETRIA TFCs, and Japan TRIZ Symposia are informative.  Articles related to USIT are also unique.

Japan TRIZ CB (Official Page)   http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/elinksref/eJapanTRIZ-CB/eJapanTRIZ-CB.html    (in English and in Japanese)

           English pages:  http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/elinksref/eJapanTRIZ-CB/eJapanTRIZ-CB.html 
           Japanese pages http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/jlinksref/JapanTRIZ-CB/JapanTRIZ-CB.html 

Volunteer-based national organization in Japan for promoting TRIZ.  It organized the Japan TRIZ Symposium 2005, 2006, and 2007.  Annoucements of the 4th Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008 are also shown here.  (Web Master: T. Nakagawa). 

Japan TRIZ Society (NPO) (Official Page)     http://www.triz-japan.org/    (in Japanese)

Official successor of Japan TRIZ CB, and established in Dec. 2007 as an NPO.  It has over-100 members voluntarily joined.  This Society is going to hold the 4th Japan TRIZ Symposium 2008.  Announcements and reports will be posted. 

SANNO Institute of Management, TRIZ Center     http://www.hj.sanno.ac.jp/   (in Japanese)

Active in research and industrial consulting with TRIZ since 1997, in cooperation with Ideation International Inc. 

CTC (ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation)     http://www.ctc-g.co.jp/    (in Japanese)

Agency of Ideation International Inc. for selling Japanese editions of IWB etc. 

Mitsubishi Research Institute:  Invention Technology Team: ITD/TRIZ Project.     http://www.goldfire.jp/IM/   (in Japanese)

Agency of Invention Machine Corp. (from 1997 till 2007).  Led the TRIZ penetration in Japan, especially based on the IMC's software tools TechOptimizer and Goldfire Innovator in Japanese editions, and by organizing Users' TRIZ Study Groups and IM User Group Meetings (from 2001 to 2003, and in an open form in 2004).  This Web site posts documents of these activities (accessibility partly limited to IM users) in Japanese.

Cybernet Systems       http://www.cybernet.co.jp/inventionmachine/    (in Japanese)

Agency of Invention Machine Corp. since automn 2007.

Nikkei BP.    On line site       http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/     (in Japanese)

With "Nikkei Mechanical" (monthly journal), book publications, seminars, and online news, Nikkei BP was very active to promote TRIZ from 1996 till about 2002. They have much influence on Japanese industries with news and article on TRIZ from time to time.  Their current sites are:

Nikkei BP technical information site: "Tech On!":   http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/
Site of "Nikkei Monozukuri", a monthly journal:   http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/Monozukuri/

IDEA, Ltd.         http://www.idea-triz.com/     (in Japanese)

A consulting firm specialized in TRIZ; very active in TRIZ consulting in industries.      

SKI (Souzou Kaihatsu Initiative, Ltd.)    http://www.triz-jp.com/   (in Japanese)

A TRIZ consulting firm and also a TRIZ publisher (of Darrell Mann's HOSI and Matrix 2003 in Japanese editions).

  Selected 30 TRIZ Links in Japan (described in Japanese)   (Rebuilt on Apr. 12, 2008)

  Extended 100 TRIZ Links in Japan    (Rebuilt on Apr. 12, 2008)

Almost all sites are written only in Japanese. Thus the page of Extended Links will not be translated into English.

Japanese Page was rebuilt on April 12, 2008, classifying with the following categories:

(1) Primary TRIZ Sites, generating/posting original information on TRIZ
(2) TRIZ firms, providing services as consultants, tool vendors, dealers, etc.
(3) Academic societies and journals in the fields more or less related to TRIZ
(4) Public organizations interested in TRIZ, e.g. universities, governmental/manicipal, and non-profit organizations
(5) Commercial organizations interested in TRIZ and providing seminars, trainings, and e-learnings, etc.
(6) Portal sites providing with dictionaries, book search, technical/business news, community groups, etc.
(7) Personal (or voluntary) Web sites and blog sites showing some interest in TRIZ.
(8) Official or personal Web sites and blog sites, useful for reference though TRIZ is not written explicitly.

(9) TRIZ-user industries and universities:  80 papers and articles written so far by users in industries and universities are listed according to the user organizatons. Separate page , posted on May 4, 2008.


Selected 50 TRIZ Links in the World

(1) Japan        ==>  see above.

(2) North America (USA, Canada)

The TRIZ Journal          http://www.triz-journal.com/      (in English)

The global hub site specialized in TRIZ, featuring with monthly e-journal and communication portals written and contributed by many authors over the world.  Founded in 1996. Nearly 10 articles on theories and practices related to TRIZ are posted every month. Over-1000 articles are accumulated in the archive.

Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies     http://www.aitriz.org/    (in English)

Establihed in 1998 in the US as a not-for-profit organization for promoting TRIZ in the (especially Western) world.  Has held its annual conferences TRIZCON since 1999. 

Technical Innovation Center        http://www.triz.org/       (in English)

TRIZ publisher and consulting firm, started in early 1990s.  (Key persons: Richard Langevin, Valery Krasnoslobodtsev)

Ideation International Inc.        http://www.ideationtriz.com/    (in English)

TRIZ consulting firm organized in early 1990s on the basis of the Kishnev TRIZ school. Strong in TRIZ reasearch, training, and industrial consulting. Published nearly 10 books and developed the software tool 'Innovation Workbench (IWB)'.  (Keypersons: Boris Zlotin, Alla Zusman, etc. )

Invention Machine Corp.     http://www.invention-machine.com/   (in English)

Global leader of TRIZ software tools, 'TechOptimizer' and then currently 'Goldfire Innovator'.  Strong in the knowledge bases, especilly in the Effects Databases.  Has a unique capability in semantic analysis of patent/technical documents to automatically extract the essence of the documents into well-comprehensive sentences. (Keypersons: Jim Todhunter, Stephen Brown).

GEN3 partners     http://www.gen3.com/    http://www.gen3partners.com/  (in English)

TRIZ consulting firm, having bases in US and in Russia. (Keypersons: Simon Litvin, Sergei Ikovenko)

TRIZ Group      http://www.trizgroup.com/      (in English)

Teaching at Waine State Univ. and TRIZ consulting.  (Keypersons: Victor Fey, Eugine Rivin)

TRIZ Consulting, Inc.         http://www.trizconsulting.com/     (in English)

TRIZ consulting firm.  (Keyperson: Zinovy Royzen)

The Official TRIZ WWW Site      http://www.trizexperts.net/    (in English and in Russian)

Encyclopedia in TRIZ (written in Engish and partly in Russian), and On-line Internet University in TRIZ.  Was very active in 1999 - 2003.  (Keypersons: Semeyon Savransky)

The PQR Group     http://www.trizpqrgroup.com/    (in English)

Keypersons: Ellen Domb, Michael Slocum, Joe Miller, etc.

Pretium Consulting     http://www.pretiumllc.com/     (in English)

A new TRIZ consulting firm. Developed a software tool 'The Guided Innovation Toolkit Software'.  (Keyersons: Peter Hanik, Sergey Malkin).

Anti TRIZ-journal (Editor: Yevgeny Karasik)   http://www3.sympatico.ca/karasik/   (in English)

Specialized in TRIZ on the 'orthodox' standpoint. (Keypersons: Yevgeny Karasik, Genady Filkovsky)

USIT Web Site: Ntelleck      http://www.u-sit.net/    (in English)

USIT: Unified Structured Inventive Thinking.  (Keyperson: Ed Sickafus)

TRIZ Scientific   http://www.trizscientific.com/default.htm  (in English and in Russian)

Web site established by MATRIZ and Ideation Research Lab.  Was active around 2001.  (Key persons: Svetlana Visnepolschi, Vladimir Proseanic, etc.) 

Third Millenium Publishing      http://3mpub.com/TRIZ/   (in English)

On-line publisher handling Larry Ball's books.

(3) Europe (West, Central, and North Europe)

ETRIA:  The European TRIZ Association    http://www.etria.net/      http://etria.net/portal/   (in English)

A not-for-profit organization for promoting TRIZ in Europe and the world.  Established in 2000.  Has organized the "TRIZ Future Conference" every year, in different countries.  Papers presented at TFC (2001 - 2007) )are stored in the ETRIA Web site and accessible by the ETRIA members only.

Systematic Innovation    http://www.systematic-innovation.com/    (in English)

Consulting firm, doing research, publisher, and software tool development. (Keyperson: Darrell Mann)

TRIZ XXI        http://www.triz.es/       http://www.triz.net/Home.html   (in Spanish)

A project of Valencia Polytechnic University.  

Association TRIZ France        http://www.trizfrance.org/      (in French)    

Established in 1999. (Keypersons: President: Pascal Crubleau)

INSA Strasbourg Graduate School of Science and Technology     http://www.insa-strasbourg.fr/en/  (in French and in English)

Active in research and education in TRIZ (especially OTSM-TRIZ).  The Advanced Master course of this university is currently the only one specialized in TRIZ in the Western world.  (Keypersons: Roland de Guio, Denis Cavallucci, Nikolai Khomenko, Dmitry Kucharavy) 

Apeiron  (Italian TRIZ Association)   http://www.apeiron-triz.org/    (in Italian)

Association for Reason-based Innovation.

CREAX         http://www.creax.com/ (Belgium)    (Simon Dewulf)   (in English)

TRIZ consulting, seminar, tool development.  Software tools: DIVA and CREAX Innovation Suite.  (Keypersons:  SImon Dewulf)  Providing useful information free: 

Categorized Links on Creativity (838 links, hand picked)  http://www.creax.net/   
More Inspiration http://www.creax.com/more_inspiration.htm
Function Database   http://www.creax.com/function_database.htm

ICG Training& Consulting     http://www.xtriz.com/      (in English)

Consulting firm in TRIZ and Systematic Innovation. (Keyperson: Valeri Souchkov)

SIT Innovation Community in the Netherlands   http://www.sit-netherlands.com/  ( in English)

TRIZ-Online Startseite     http://www.triz-online.de/   (in German and in English)

(Keypersons:  Carsten Gundlach)

WOIS Institute Coburg      http://www.wois-innovation.de/  (in German and in English)  (Inserted: May 25, 2008)

WOIS stands for 'Contradiction Oriented Innovaion Strategy' (in German acronym). (Keypersons: Hans-Juergen Linde, Guenther Herr)

TriS Europe    http://www.tris-europe.com/eng/index.htm

Innovation Cards or Slides     http://www.etzold.biz/index_e.htm    (in English)

For 'Innovating by Playing'. (Keypersons:  Hape Etzold, Magdalena Michalak)

 

(4) Russia and East Europe

The Official G.S. Altshuller Foundation   http://www.altshuller.ru/   (in Russian and in English)

The copyrights of Mr. Genrich Altshuller's works are legally owned by his granddaughter Yuna Komarcheva in this Foundation.  The Foundation is trying to record the huge volume of Altshuller's works in digital format and publicize them in the Web site for free access. 

English page:  http://www.altshuller.ru/world/eng/
TRIZ terminology in different languages:    http://www.altshuller.ru/world/eng/thesaur.asp

MATRIZ (International TRIZ Association)   http://www.matriz.ru/    (in Russian)

Was founded in 1989.  It has the strong base on TRIZ people in Russia and a number of Russian TRIZ Masters and experts emigrated and currently working actively in the Western world. 

TRIZ Links world wide (rich and nice collection):    http://www.matriz.ru/1triz/1-7sites.html

TRIZ Developers Summit (Official Site)   http://www.triz-summit.ru/en/  (in Russian and in English) 

Under the support of MA TRIZ, the Summit had scientific seminars (TDS) in 2005 and 2007, and are trying to compile the 'TRIZ Body of Knowledge' and to set the program of 'TRIZ Top Level Certification'.  (Board members: A.V. Kudryavtsev, Simon S. Litvin, Vladimir M. Petrov, and Mikhail S. Rubin) 

TRIZ Body of Knowledge:    http://www.triz-summit.ru/en/section.php?docId=3841

TRIZ-CHANCE      http://www.triz-chance.ru/triz-chance_en.html  (in Russian)

A network of consulting firms in Russia, carrying out publications. A large number of articles (or papers) written in Russian. 

Institute of Innovative Design   http://www.triz-guide.com/index.php   (in English and in Russian)

Trying to provide rich contents of TRIZ in English. (Keypersons: Yuri Salamatov)

TRIZ-PROFI   http://www.triz-profi.com/eng/   (in English and in Russian)

Autonomous non-profit organization of TRIZ specialists gathered by Viktor N. Baturin in Moscow (2005- ).   Such specialists have their own Web sites and publish a journal every year.  (Keypersons: Vladimir Y. Bubentsov, Alexey V. Podkatilin, Viktor I. Timokhov, Peter I. Chiksin, Anatoly A. Guin, Alexander I. Skuratovich, Sergey A. Fayer, Nikolay A. Shpakovsky).

"TRIZ-PROFI: Effective Solutions" Journal  (downloadable, free)   http://www.triz-profi.com/magazin/

TRIZland   http://www.trizland.ru/index.php   (in Russian)

The main goal of the site is 'combining entertainment with brain training.'  (Keypersons: Viktor I. Timokhov)

Generator (gnrtr.com)      http://www.gnrtr.com/index_en.html     (in English and in Russian)

Instructive with nicely designed figures and comprehensive articles in English. (Keypersons:  Nikolay Shpakovsky, Elena Novitzkaya)

'Generation tools' (papers):  http://www.gnrtr.com/tools/en/tools.html
TRIZ-trainer  (on-line training tool):   http://www.gnrtr.com/powers/en/soft03.html

OTSM-TRIZ Technologies Center    http://www.trizminsk.org/  (in Russian, some in English)

Site of Classical TRIZ and OTSM-TRIZ, with emphasis on education at different levels from preschool education to postgraduate study.  Over-560 articles in Russian and about 10 in English. (Keypersons: Nikolai Khomenko, Dmitri Kucharavy)

List of TRIZ books:  http://www.trizminsk.org/eng/book.htm

Jonathan Livingston Project - OTSM-TRIZ    http://www.jlproj.org/   (in Russian and in English)

A new Web site of the project spun off the Minsk center. (Keypersons: Nikolai Khomenko, Tachiana Sidorchuk, Alla Nesterenko, Harry Flosser )

(5) Mid East (Israel, etc.)

SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking)    http://www.sitsite.com/   (in English and in Hebrew)

A big company ('SIT') of promoting, consulting, and training the SIT method. (Keypersons: Jacob Goldenberg, Roni Horowitz, Haim Peres, Amnon Levav, etc.)

ASIT Method: start2think.com    http://www.start2think.com    (in English)

An advanced form of SIT.  (Keypersons: Roni Horowitz) 

(6) Asia    (Note:  Japan => see above. )

Korea TRIZ Association (KTA)       http://www.triz.or.kr/     (in Korean)

Has an Agreement with MA TRIZ and is active in certification of Korean TRIZ Experts. (Keypersons: President: Ik-Cheol Kim)

TRIZ Corporation, Korea     http://www.triz.co.kr/   (in Korean and in English)

A TRIZ Consulting firm, an Agency of Invention Machine Inc.

TRIZKorea.com   http://www.trizkorea.com/  (in Korean and in English)

Learning Materials on TRIZ: 'TRIZ Trainer' (detailed descriptions and movies) (in English). (Keypersons:  Hyo June Kim, Nikolai Shpakovsky, Vasiliy Lenjashin, etc.)

IWINT, Inc.          http://www.iwint.com/triz.html    (in English and in Chinese)

Developing a software tool: 'Computer-based training for Innovation CBT/NOVA'.  Headquarter in California, and branch offices in Beijing, Chengdu, etc. (Keypersons: Hyman Duan, etc.)

http://www.triz.gov.cn/      (in Chinese)

A branch of regional government of northeastern part of China, promoting TRIZ very actively.  A lot of introductory materials written in Chinese.

Taiwan TRIZ Association   http://www.triz.org.tw/web/   (in Chinese)

Second Conference of Taiwan TRIZ Association: Held on Dec. 15, 2007 with 140 participants. (Keypersons:  President:  Dawud Yung-Jye Sha

Center for Scientific and Technical Creativity (CSTC)     http://www.hcmuns.edu.vn/CSTC/home-e.htm  (in Vietnamese and in English)

An academic unit within the Vietnam National University - Hochiminh City College of Natural Sciences.  Founded in 1991 by Phan Dung, a student of Mr. Altshuller. 

Phan Dung: 'About our Teacher Mr. Genrikh Saulovich Altshuller', (TRIZCON2001)  http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eforum/ePhanDung-Altshuller010509.html

TRIZ Institute Thailand         http://www.trizit.org/   (in Thai)

Umakant Mishra's TRIZ Web Site:  http://www.trizsite.com/    (in English)

(Keypersons: Umakant Mishra)  Has a lot of original materials related to the book:
Umakant Mishra: "TRIZ Principles for Information Technology", Draft Edition, TIC (2007). Note: Japanese translation project of this book. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eforum/e2008Forum/eMishraTextbook08/eMishraBookProject-08.html

TRIZ India Forum      http://trizindiaforum.blogspot.com/    (in English)

A small forum for promoting TRIZ in India.  (Keypersons:  Navneet Bhushan, Prakasan Kapporth)

TRIZ in Google Trends: http://trizindiaforum.blogspot.com/2008/02/triz-in-google-trends.html

(7) Australia and Oceania

TRIZ4U       http://www.triz4u.com/   (in English)

Keypersons: Iouri Belski (Associate Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

(8) Central and South America

AMETRIZ  (Mexican TRIZ Association)   http://www.ametriz.com/    (in Spanish)

Keypersons:  Noel León Rovira, Edgardo Córdoba López, Guillermo Cortés Robles.  Held the First (2006) and the Second (2007) Iberoamerican Technological Innovation Congress.

TRIZ Nicaragua  (Hugo Sanchez's TRIZ Web Site)                   (in Spanish)

Was active during 2002-2003 for introducing simplified forms of TRIZ (including SIT, USIT, and Larry Ball's method).  See Nakagawa's page: http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/elinksref/eRefGuide0301/eRefGuide030127.html .  The site is closed temporarily.

Aditiva Consulting   http://www.aditivaconsultoria.com/   (in Portuguese)

Keypersons: Marco Aurélio de Carvalho.  Blog:    http://triznik.blogspot.com/

(9) Africa

(10) Others

Amazon.com   http://www.amazon.com/     for TRIZ book search   (in English)

Wikipedia   (The free encyclopedia)  TRIZ       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ  (in English)

Unfortunately, the current version about TRIZ is poor in quality to my eyes, but nobody has the responsibility for it.  Complete rebuilding and rewriting may be necessary. 

Mycoted          http://www.mycoted.com/     (in English)

Wiki of techniques of innovation, with categories of Problem definition, Idea generation, Idea selection, Idea implementation, and Processes.  The pages of this site seem reasonably good.


  Extended List of TRIZ Links in the World

Extended 120 TRIZ Links in the World     (Posted: May 3, 2008)

         Over 120 sites are listed according to their regions/countries, with annotation.  

 

 

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