Conall OCathain wrote:
> This might be of some interest. For those who have not come across it, TRIZ was
> developed in the former Soviet Union, initially from the study of patents. It
> grew into a powerful and philosophical method for finding general design
> principles and reapplying them in different areas, even to the extent of
> technological forecasting. (That is the oversimplification of the year).
People may be interested to know that colleagues and I at Bath have an
EPSRC-funded project to put biology into TRIZ, by which I mean that we
will extend it to include the mechanisms and processes that organisms
use. The intention is to make those mechanisms and processes available
to engineers so that they can employ them directly in design, or by
analogy.
Yours
Adrian
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