TRIZ Already 35 Years in the Czech Republic

Abstract

TRIZ methodology was popularized in the Czech Republic in technical journals since 1980.Then it has been lectured at several technical universities since 1996 (Brno, Prague, Liberec, Pilsen, Ostrava, Zilina, Kosice).Since 2000 original publications from more Russian authors have been translated into Czech, and later some of their publications from English. Into companies TRIZ enters in the form of motivational three hour lectures and subsequent short-term 2+1 day courses during last ten years.Anyway, to follow-up the educational course of TRIZ by practical applications in intention of repeated analyze and solving a concrete innovation task go well in companies only in combination of several factors.Despite to the many positive references of more than 2260 listeners, mostly from companies and partially from technical universities, TRIZ methodology has not yet become a common studied theme neither in universities nor in corporate development departments.In this paper the authors summarize the experience of teaching and implementation TRIZ at technical universities and findings from teaching and applications in companies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the last 35 years.