A founder of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies, 1998

Publications

Technical Innovation Center publishes TRIZ books in English and used them in training. This page has no cart.

Cover images are the files from the old site.

Covers from the old site

Cover of The Innovation Algorithm by Genrich Altshuller, translated by Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman.

The Innovation Algorithm

Genrich Altshuller. Translated by Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman. The 2000 site credited the book to him. Catalog price on the 2018 homepage: $50.

Cover of And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared, by G. Altshuller, with a maze drawing.

And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared

G. Altshuller (H. Altov). Translated by Lev Shulyak. The cover file on the old site is this small gif. Catalog price on the 2018 homepage: $40.

Cover of 40 Principles: Extended Edition by Genrich Altshuller, with commentary by Dana W. Clarke.

40 Principles: Extended Edition

Genrich Altshuller. New edition with commentary by Dana W. Clarke. Additional material by Lev Shulyak and Leonid Lerner. Drawings by Uri Fedosseev. Translated and edited by Lev Shulyak and Steven Rodman. Catalog price on the 2018 homepage: $55.

Cover of Ballad of the Stars by Genrich Altshuller, writing as G. Altov, and Valentina Zhuravlyova.

Ballad of the Stars

Genrich Altshuller, writing as G. Altov, and Valentina Zhuravlyova. The cover calls it stories of science fiction, ultraimagination, and TRIZ. No catalog price for this title was kept.

Named on the publishing page

  • And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared
  • 40 Principles: Extended Edition
  • The Innovation Algorithm, by Genrich Altshuller

The publishing page said these books were available from triz.org and from Amazon.

Other titles the old store listed

Availability was not rechecked. Authors are listed only where the kept text or the cover named them.

  • 40 Principles, first edition
  • The Innovation Algorithm, hard cover
  • 3-book set of the titles above
  • TRIZ: The Right Solution at the Right Time
  • The Ideal Result
  • Innovation on Demand
  • The Innovation Tools Handbook
  • Ballad of the Stars
  • Hands-on Systematic Innovation
  • Hands-on Systematic Innovation for Business
  • TRIZ: Systematic Innovation in Manufacturing
  • TRIZ: Systematic Innovation in Business and Management
  • Systematic (Software) Innovation
  • Da Vinci and the 40 Answers
  • Improve Your Thinking
  • Success Factor
  • Practical Technical Creativity
  • TRIZ: Technology for Innovation
  • TRIZ: The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
  • Using TRIZ for Anti-Virus Development
  • Creativity as an Exact Science
  • TRIZ for Six Sigma
  • Teaching 21st Century Skills
  • Altshuller Teaching TRIZ

TODO. Confirm which titles are still in print, the current prices, and how a reader orders them. The $40, $50, and $55 figures above are the 2018 homepage catalog, repeated because that capture was readable. A 2025 capture showed the same three numbers beside covers on a page that also carried unrelated gambling text, so it was not used as the source. To order, write to tic@triz.org or call 508-799-6700.