In 1995, the team at Technical Innovation Center approached Genrikh Altshuller about creating a non-for-profit institution to promote TRIZ outside of Russia. Genrikh Altshuller gave his blessing for the idea and members of the TRIZ community went about realizing this initiative. In the fall of 1998, with the enthusiastic support of TRIZ users around the world, the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies was established. The Institute has continued to develop, serving the needs of a growing TRIZ community.

The Altshuller Institute, a 501(C)3 non-profit organization, provides many services to the world TRIZ community. In addition to disseminating TRIZ training at our annual TRIZ conference, TRIZCON, the Altshuller Institute also promotes other global TRIZ events and links to other TRIZ-related sites. The Altshuller Institute's General Store makes the largest collection of TRIZ materials in the world available to everyone. This web site also provides news sections for any member of the TRIZ community to post press releases. Don't miss our monthly online periodicals, articles and papers relative to current TRIZ usage.

Membership: AI has several membership levels: Free - temporary status; Annual Membership; Student Memberships; Lifetime Memberships and Retired Memberships. Get the most benefit from TRIZ and this website by becoming a member. For more membership information.

Website Benefits: To get a better benefit from of our website, I encourage you to sign up as FREE member. This will provide you with the monthly Newsletter, News Flashes and access to many of the interactive features that this website has to offer. To get the maximum benefit from the website, join as an annual or lifetime member.

We provide information and services to:
  1. Anyone looking for innovation, effective thinking skills, and problem solving techniques,
  2. Those who have heard about TRIZ and want to learn more.
  3. Businesses seeking to develop or expand their R&D efforts more productively,
  4. Schools that are interested in STEM. TRIZ is a perfect strand to provide a systematic problem solving methodology, 
  5. TRIZ practitioners who wish to expand TRIZ to the world can use our Manufacturing Blog
  6. Members can list their Aha Moment -- when they realized the power and potential of TRIZ.
  7. Consultants and practitioners seeking tools to compliment their Six Sigma, Lean, QFD or other quality programs
  8. Develop a strong international membership base that will allow expansion of member benefits and global deployment of TRIZ.
  9. Monthly E-Newsletter

Who can benefit from TRIZ?: TRIZ can be taught to children and adults to stimulate creativity and improve critical thinking. TRIZ provides a host of tools and concepts to enhance systematic problem solving skills. TRIZ can be learned through reading, lectures, coaching and practice in the same way as we learn how to play a musical instrument or become a professional sports player. Improved and accelerated learning can be accomplished from professional TRIZ Providers.

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