11
Inventions and Innovations in
Science
11.1 Accelerating
At last, we have reached the final chapter.
Science TRIZ 226
We have seen, throughout this book, that the three tech11.2 Trends and
nical fields we discussed — accelerators, lasers and plasma
principles
227 — sometimes have a lot in common, things such as scientific
11.3 Engineering, TRIZ approaches and solutions, similar inventions and technologand science
229 ical breakthroughs. We have seen several examples when the
11.4 Aiming for Pasteur TRIZ, or AS-TRIZ, inventive principles can be retrospectively
quadrant
233 identified in various scientific inventions.
11.5 How to cross the
In this final chapter, we would like to return to the topic
Valley of Death
we began to discuss in the very first chapter of this book —
236
the methodology of inventiveness.
11.6 How to learn TRIZ
We will start by reviewing the updated Accelerating Sciin science
240 ence TRIZ principles.
11.7 Let us be
Following that, we will then look critically at some of the
challenged
242 suggested AS-TRIZ inventive principles, and discuss whether
these are indeed principles or rather trends of the evolution
of scientific systems. In this discourse, we will recall the definition of the laws of the evolution of technical systems as
described by the standard TRIZ principles. After observing
the parallels between the evolution of radar and lasers, we
will conclude that some of the suggested AS-TRIZ inventive
principles should be redefined as the laws of the evolution of
technical/scientific systems.
We will then continue to consider the inventive principles
and the laws of the evolution of systems by taking a very general approach, and will look at various fields of science and
even beyond those.
The next topic we will discuss is the way to take these scientific inventions and apply them in practical settings. We
will look at the linear and two-dimensional models of innovation and discuss the notion of the Pasteur quadrant in application to accelerator science in particular.
The well-known challenge of “crossing the Valley of
Death” in technological innovation will be our next topic, and
we will suggest a possible method for crossing this so-called
valley in regards to the field of sci-tech, with help from a selection of compact light source projects.
In the next section we will offer a possible approach of
using TRIZ to teach future generations of science students. In
fact, the method we have used throughout this book has not
been the ready-to-use standard TRIZ; instead, we immersed
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DOI: 10.1201/b18696-11
Inventions and Innovations in
Science
11.1 Accelerating
At last, we have reached the final chapter.
Science TRIZ 226
We have seen, throughout this book, that the three tech11.2 Trends and
nical fields we discussed — accelerators, lasers and plasma
principles
227 — sometimes have a lot in common, things such as scientific
11.3 Engineering, TRIZ approaches and solutions, similar inventions and technologand science
229 ical breakthroughs. We have seen several examples when the
11.4 Aiming for Pasteur TRIZ, or AS-TRIZ, inventive principles can be retrospectively
quadrant
233 identified in various scientific inventions.
11.5 How to cross the
In this final chapter, we would like to return to the topic
Valley of Death
we began to discuss in the very first chapter of this book —
236
the methodology of inventiveness.
11.6 How to learn TRIZ
We will start by reviewing the updated Accelerating Sciin science
240 ence TRIZ principles.
11.7 Let us be
Following that, we will then look critically at some of the
challenged
242 suggested AS-TRIZ inventive principles, and discuss whether
these are indeed principles or rather trends of the evolution
of scientific systems. In this discourse, we will recall the definition of the laws of the evolution of technical systems as
described by the standard TRIZ principles. After observing
the parallels between the evolution of radar and lasers, we
will conclude that some of the suggested AS-TRIZ inventive
principles should be redefined as the laws of the evolution of
technical/scientific systems.
We will then continue to consider the inventive principles
and the laws of the evolution of systems by taking a very general approach, and will look at various fields of science and
even beyond those.
The next topic we will discuss is the way to take these scientific inventions and apply them in practical settings. We
will look at the linear and two-dimensional models of innovation and discuss the notion of the Pasteur quadrant in application to accelerator science in particular.
The well-known challenge of “crossing the Valley of
Death” in technological innovation will be our next topic, and
we will suggest a possible method for crossing this so-called
valley in regards to the field of sci-tech, with help from a selection of compact light source projects.
In the next section we will offer a possible approach of
using TRIZ to teach future generations of science students. In
fact, the method we have used throughout this book has not
been the ready-to-use standard TRIZ; instead, we immersed
225
DOI: 10.1201/b18696-11