Where to Study TRIZ

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By Gaetano Cascini

Since the 2004 Edition of the TRIZ Future Conference we have been working to create a reference database that includes information on all of the educational instututions involved in the research, application and dissemination of TRIZ. It required more time than I expected as we exchanged hundreds of emails, performed endless Internet searches and synthesized pages upon pages of data in different formats.

The good news? I am pleased to note that TRIZ knowledge is evolving much faster than our ability to map it. The following table is only a small sample of the offerings from more than 130 institutions across the world. The European TRIZ Association is going to launch a wiki-page so that anyone will be able to make changes and additions to the database in the future.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the development of this database.

Excerpt of ETRIA's Educational Database
Country	University	TRIZ Research Activity	TRIZ Application Activity	TRIZ Education
Austria	Montauniversitat Leoben	No	Yes	Yes
Brazil	Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná	Yes	Yes (Mechanical Engineering)	Yes
China	Hebei University of Technology	Yes	No	Yes
Germany	University of Kassel Maschinenbau, Leitbau	Yes	Yes	Yes
Italy	University of Florence	Yes	Yes	Yes
Romania	University of Craiova	No	Yes	Yes
Singapore	Singapore Polytechnic	Yes	Yes	Yes
South Korea	Korea Polytechnic University	Yes	Yes (Mechanical Design)	Yes
Taiwan	National Formosa University	Yes	Yes	Yes
U.S.A.	Pennsylvania State University	Yes	Yes	Yes

About the Author:

Gaetano Cascini works in the Methods and Techniques for Innovation Lab in the Department of Mechanics and Industrial Technologies at the University of Florence. Contact Gaetano Cascini at gaetano.cascini (at) unifi.it or visit http://www.unifi.it.