The Evolution of Innovation - TRIZ Trends and Bionics

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Engineering - Industrial Engineering and Management grade: 10 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 ProblemsSolving - TRIZ' and 'Bionics'.The analysis focuses mainly on the 'Seven Pillars' and 'TRIZ Trends' of the innovation philosophy 'Systematic Innovation' as well as on Darwin's 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 theseperceptions 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.