Inventor's Manual (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781500453657)

Dr Nikolay Bogatyrev is a certified TRIZ expert and consultant on inventive problem solving with more than 30 years of experience in the UK, EU and Russia. Nikolay teaches TRIZ at the University of Bath for future engineers and managers. He started to use TRIZ system himself as a PhD student at Novosibirsk State University, and was fascinated by the power of this system: in a couple of years, he had sold 28 patents for new laboratory research equipment. Holding a PhD in Biology, Nikolay is mostly interested in an engineering approach and ecologically sound architecture and design. He has more than 100 publications, ranging from popular science papers to research articles and books. While applying TRIZ in ecology and agriculture, Nikolay developed a set of rules for eco-engineering and published them in a book "Ecological Engineering of Survival". For many years Nikolay taught students of Academy of Architecture in Russia. Since2002, Nikolay works at the University of Bath (UK) and runs his own consultancy company BioTRIZ Ltd. Dr. O. Bogatyreva is a broadly qualified expert in the fields of creativity, inventive problem solving and general biology. Her work on Bio-inspired design are included nearly in every lecture on Biomimetics in Europe and America. Olga Bogatyreva has a background in a behavioural science and psychology and she uses this expertise to develop the most efficient methods of teaching creativity and invention. Her main fields of interest are organisational behaviour and group decision making, in which she has more than 80 publications. She holds a DSc in Complexity Theory and PhD in Biology. Being Internationally certified TRIZ expert Olga sold two patents on laboratory equipment which was designed, manufactured and widely used. Olga has developed a range of tools and mathematical model for sustainable organisational management. Olga teaches TRIZ at the University of Bath for undergraduate and postgraduate students and runs courses for Continuous Professional Development.