ICG SYSTEMATIC
INNOVATION NEWSLETTER, JULY 20, 2004.
Dear readers,
This newsletter, as
usual highlights some forthcoming events,
provides links to recent articles and news
from the world of innovation and
technology.
Sincerely,
Valeri Souchkov
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Next courses from ICG
in the Netherlands:
- 2-day Basic
Systematic Innovation: September 7-8, 2004
- 1-day Systematic
Innovation for Business and Management:
October 6, 2004
- 3-day Advanced
Systematic Innovation: November 9-10-11,
2004
Do not miss
ETRIA Conference "TRIZ Future 2004": November
3-5, 2004, Florence, Italy:
http://www.etria.net
The Club of Amsterdam
organizes the congress
"Summit For Future
2005" dedicated to the
questions of transformation of Europe to
knowledge Society. Valeri Souchkov will be speaking in the stream "Science and
Technology":
ARTICLES (LINKS)
Infrastructure for
Systematic Innovation Enterprise
by Valeri Souchkov
A short article which discusses why
automation of innovation is still failing
and what infrastructure will help achieving
maximum results regarding innovative
performance.
How to Apply
TRIZ at Samsung
by Hyo June Kim
This link,
kindly provided by Prof. Toru Nakagawa
from Osaka-Gakun University of Japan
presents a brief story of implementing
TRIZ at Samsung Corporation, which
quickly develops strong competence with
new methods of Systematic Innovation and
their practical applications.
Mapping the
Innovation Space One: Novel Tools for
Problem Definition in Product Innovation
by Barry Winkless, Dr. John Cooney
The article proposes and discusses a novel
approach to map innovative problems.
http://www.triz-journal.com/archives/2004/07/04.pdf
innotool –
Innovation Toolbox For SMEs
by Darrell Mann
The article reports on the results of EU-funded
project to create and develop a tool for
innovation which could be of use to
small and medium enterprises.
TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS
Smart cardboard
A new technology that
uses paperboard for collecting, exchanging
and securing information. As authors say,
"this is a PC on paper". Costs of the
technology is claimed to be very low,
therefore the technology can be used in
disposable objects. Can be applied in a
number of applications, such as packaging,
pharmacy, etc.
Technology for printing RFID
To print RFID
(Radio-Frequency Identification) which is
becoming more and more widespread, standard
technology involves creating flat antennas
by etching away layers of copper until we
obtain the desired print. A new
technology from QinetiQ covers a substrate
with a special ink which does not contain
any metal. Then the substrate is placed to
the metal-containing solution, and the ink
"attracts" metal from the solution. The
technology is 50% cheaper and much faster. A
good illustration of the TRIZ "Intermediary"
Principle, where an introduced intermediate
object provides the needed function (to form
antennas) almost ideally.
Fresh bulb
A fluorescent bulb
which does not only sheds light but
removes odor. A nice example of a
bi-system with a good use of shared
resources. However, some test customers
complained that the removed all odors at
all, so they can't enjoy nice smell of
flowers...
Self-chilling
beverage can
When
activated, the desiccant contained
within a vacuum draws the heat
from beverage through the evaporator
into an insulated heat-sink container
thus lowering the temperature of the
beverage. Well,
according to TRIZ, the next goal
of inventors should be "The drink cools
down itself". Anyone?
CURIOUS
Ice cream from Japan.
Seems like the authors of these new food
products used morphological approach...
However, there are still too many doubts how
these ice-creams taste...
