The Evolution of Innovation - TRIZ Trends and Bionics

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management, grade: 1,0, Campus02 University of Applied Sciences Graz (Studiengang Innovationsmanagement), language: English, abstract: The bachelor thesis in hand compares biological and technical innovation strategies and analyses potential connexions between The Theory of Inventive Problems Solving - TRIZ and Bionics. The analysis focuses mainly on the Seven Pillars and TRIZ Trends of the innovation philosophy Systematic Innovation as well as on Darwins theory of evolution and the Ten Principles of Biological Design of bionics. Consequently analogies and differences between biological and technical strategies are identified, descriptive examples are presented and the relevance of these perceptions for human innovation strategies is evaluated. As a result the combination of bionical and TRIZ-based techniques is recommended as a basis for a holistic, evolutionary-oriented human innovation strategy.