How to invent (almost) anything

. Much of the thinking is based on TRIZ, invented by former Russian naval patent officer, Genrich Altshuller, which thinking also underlies Invention Machine software. Graham Rawlinson writes: "TRIZ is a long standing process for thinking on design and problem solving. There have been four USA conferences on it now, two European ones and Korea is said to be introducing it to all colleges and schools and Universities. The Nikkei publications guys promote it whenever they can to Japanese companies and France is now growing a strong TRIZ community. Here in the UK we are developing a National Invention Strategy and TRIZ should be part of it. It really looks good (had another meeting today) with Government funding and lots of support from fairly high places. So after seven years working on TRIZ I think we are at last getting somewhere!" The book is available from Spiro Press, a division of Capita Business Services, priced £49.95. Graham Rawlinson's Web Site including extracts from the book Spiro Press