Advances in Systematic Creativity ― Creating and Managing Innovations

This book presents a collection of the most current research into systemic creativity and TRIZ, engendering discussion and the exchange of new discoveries in the field. With chapters on idea generation, decision making, creativity support tools, artificial intelligence and literature based discovery, it will include a number of instruments of inventive design automation. Consisting of 15-20 chapters written by leading experts in the theory for inventive problem solving (TRIZ) and adjacent fields focused upon heuristics, the contributions will add to the method of inventive design, dialogue with other tools and methods, and teaching creativity in management education through real-life case studies.

Leonid Chechurin is Professor at the Industrial Management Department of Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. He is also the Head of the System Engineering group at LUT, and Visiting Professor at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia. His research interests focus on the analysis of systems dynamics based on mathematical modelling, stability analysis, control, the systematic approach for inventive thinking and innovation automation tools.

Mikael Collan is Professor of Strategic Finance at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. His research concentrates on business decision-making under uncertainty. Mikael is past President of the Finnish Operations Research Society (FORS) and an ordinary member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, one of the Finnish Academies of Science.