ТРИЗ и институты: школа Альтшуллера

Проблемы деятельности ученого и научных коллективов. 2022. Т. 8. № 38. С. 349–359.

Vivich E.

The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) by G. S. Altshuller was widely known in the soviet engineering community in the 1980s-1990s. From 1960 until 1990, TRIZ specialists conducted seminars all around the country, there was a spread of professional communities and schools for learning TRIZ. The report contains the results of a historiographical and conceptual analysis of the development of TRIZ in the 1950s-2000s. Focus is on the relationship between TRIZ communities and existing institutions. In the report we put the question why TRIZ was never institutionalized, neither in the Soviet nor in the post-Soviet periods. The organization of the TRIZ community and its own institutional forms are also considered. The study was carried out on a corpus of various sources of the 1950s-2020s, including both publications by Altshuller and his students on TRIZ, video materials, journal notes, etc., and third-party sources reflecting the scientific and technological policy of the USSR: books, brochures, conference papers, etc. Our research demonstrated that the theoretical core of TRIZ was formed as a response on basic problems formulated by science and technology policy of USSR. This background as well as specific socio-economic conditions of USSR influenced the understanding of TRIZ. When these conditions disappeared, TRIZ had to get rid of the most important part of it’s philosophical core. As a result, it became one of the less popular instruments of creativity at western market, and could not be institutionalized in western academy.

Keywords: creativity, теория решения изобретательских задач, ТРИЗ, theory of inventive problem solving, TRIZ, Изобретательство, научно-техническая политика СССР, история философии, науки и техники в СССР, history of philosophy, science and technology in the USSR