This is the first volume in Technical Innovation Centers' TRIZ TOOLS Series. It includes the complete text of Genrich Altshuller's classic 40 Principles, plus: Genrich Altshuller: Father of TRIZ, by Leonid Lerner.
Introduction to TRIZ & Three Steps for Solving an Inventive Problem, by Lev Shulyak.
TRIZ Contradiction Matrix, one of the most powerful TRIZ Tools for solving inventive problems.
Genrich Altshuller received his first Soviet patent at the age of fourteen. While in his early twenties he began developing TRIZ. Stalin rewarded him with 25 years imprisonment in Siberia. Released after Stalin's death, he led the underground TRIZ revolution -- a fundemental shift in the technical creativity paradigm.