TFC21: ETRIA World Conference “TRIZ Future” 2021 “Creative solutions for a sustainable development” Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Bolzano, Italy, September 22-24, 2021

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Scientific papers
• Practitioners' papers

List of Topics

Innovation-oriented developments in artificial Intelligence and digitalization

• artificial intelligence and systematic innovation
• knowledge-based innovation
• digitalization in systematic innovation
• development of advanced engineering systems and innovative products exploiting artificial Intelligence and digitalization
• creative and problem-solving tools addressing problems in the world 4.0
• digital TRIZ

Progress in innovation for the sustainable development and the green deal

• environmental issues and systematic innovation
• inventive and creative design for sustainability
• fundamental engineering advances in the fields of energy and sustainability
• methodological advances to make people’s behavior more sustainable
• eco-TRIZ and TRIZ-based eco-design
• TRIZ in Design for Additive Manufacturing to minimize material consumption

TRIZ, inventive design, problem solving and Intellectual Property

• advances and recent developments in TRIZ theory, tools and models
• science of inventive problem solving, systematic invention and conflict resolution
• advanced tools for complex problem solving
• TRIZ and related tools in design thinking and open innovation
• development of inventive design methods and theories
• use of TRIZ heuristics and solutions to push creative design
• novel approaches in patent valuation, technology transfer and Intellectual Property management
• design for patentability
• TRIZ and System Engineering

TRIZ in academia, industry, education and society

• TRIZ for science and fundamental research (e.g. physics, chemistry, other natural sciences) to tackle breakthrough innovations
• TRIZ for X: engineering applications of TRIZ and systematic innovation tools in the X-field, e.g. robotics, smart connected products, telecommunications, civil engineering, electro-mechanics, electronics, software, renewable energy, mobility and transportation
• TRIZ in medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology
• TRIZ for the health services and well-being
• TRIZ in process engineering
• TRIZ in management, economics, strategy, politics, business and entrepreneurship
• TRIZ in social sciences and non-technical disciplines
• Other areas where systematic innovation is present and were not explicitly mentioned
• TRIZ and disruptive innovation
• TRIZ and forecasting of technical systems
• TRIZ application in industry
• Industrial case studies where TRIZ and systematic innovation methods are used
• education in the fields of TRIZ and creative design
• TRIZ to push digital education
• TRIZ training in schools, companies and other organizations
• TRIZ diffusion and promotion
• TRIZ communities and communities using TRIZ

Committees

General Chair

• Yuri Borgianni, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Scientific Chair

• Stelian Brad, Cluj IT Cluster, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

International Advisory Committee

• Denis Cavallucci, INSA Graduate School of Science and Technology of Strasbourg, France
• Pavel Livotov, PPI, Offenburg University, Germany

Program Committee

• Niccolò Becattini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Tiziana Bertoncelli, ANSYS Germany GmbH
• Lorenzo Maccioni, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Federico Rotini, University of Florence, Italy
• Davide Russo, University of Bergamo, Italy

Organizing committee

• Aurora Berni, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Franco Concli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Renate Folie, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Event Office
• Guido Orzes, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Erwin Rauch, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
• Lorenzo Fiorineschi, University of Florence, Italy
• Francesco Saverio Frillici, University of Florence, Italy
• Christian Spreafico, University of Bergamo, Italy

Publication

TFC21 proceedings (scientific papers) will be published in a special collection edited by Springer and indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. Details about practitioners' paper will follow.

Venue

The conference will be held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy and online

Contact

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Organization, Sponsors and Partners

The conference will be co-organized by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the European TRIZ Association (ETRIA). The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is the main partner of the conference.