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Seven flagship tools, developed with our doctoral candidates and partners, take a problem from its statement to inventive concepts. They are reserved for members of the Chair.

  1. Step 1

    Industrials, join the Chair

    Access to the Chair’s software is a privilege of its members. Tell us about your inventive challenges: we will present the Chair, its partnership and what your teams can do with the tools.

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  2. Step 2

    Your teams get their IDEAS accounts

    Once your organisation is a member, you and your colleagues create IDEAS accounts (Inventive Design lEArning System, the INSA Strasbourg platform). This single identity opens all the Chair’s software.

    Already a member? Sign in to IDEAS

Which tool, for which situation

Where to start

A complex situation is worked on as a team in Finder V3: it calls PatentSpark then TRIZBench, prioritises the contradictions, then runs ARIZ-Copilot and FusionMind in parallel. Each tool can also be used on its own, from a simpler situation.

A complex situation, the problem still unclear

patentsproblem graphContradiction ManagementFinder stepprioritised contradictionsconcepts from patentsconcepts from scientific articles

Solution concepts anchored in patents and scientific articles

Each tool on its own

  • A contradiction already identifiedInventive principles
  • A contradiction to solve in depthSolution concepts
  • A competitor’s patent in your wayAlternative concepts
  • Unmaintained patents to put to usePotential buyers
  • A need for an idea from another disciplineSolution leads from elsewhere
  • A question about the state of the artRelevant patents
  • Sector watch: who innovates, whereMap of innovative companies

Click a tool to see every path that uses it.

Step 3

Our flagship software

TRIZBench and Finder map the problem and its contradictions; ARIZ-Copilot and FusionMind turn them into concepts drawn from other fields; PatentSpark searches patents, HiveScan maps innovative companies, and TRIZApp takes TRIZ to the field.

Finder

OperationalMembers

Framework for INventive DEsign Research

Build the problem graph of a situation together, and see its contradictions.

Designed to run the TRIZBench engine, from the thesis of Nathan Witkowicz, conducted with funding from ArcelorMittal

TRIZBench

DemonstratorMembers

From a problem statement to the few contradictions that really matter.

Thesis of Nathan Witkowicz, conducted with funding from ArcelorMittal

ARIZ-Copilot

DemonstratorMembers

ARIZ executed step by step by language models, anchored in real patents.

PhD thesis of Iliass Ayaou (2025)

FusionMind

DemonstratorMembers

Look for the solution to an engineering problem in other scientific disciplines.

PhD thesis of Nicolas Douard (2025)

PatentSpark

DemonstratorMembers

Find, in patents, the solutions and contradictions related to your problem.

PhD thesis of Iliass Ayaou (2025)

HiveScan

DemonstratorMembers

Map innovative companies of a field, with an innovation index you can decompose.

Thesis of Connor MacLean, conducted with funding from EDF

TRIZApp

OperationalMembers

TRIZ in your pocket: from a contradiction to principles, articles and solutions.

Other tools

  • MATRIX

    Altshuller's contradiction matrix online, with examples — free for everyone.

    Public

  • PHYSISOLVE

    Identify a problem quickly and concentrate on solving it.

    Members, IDEAS account

  • PIXSEB

    Collect contradictions across competitors and prioritise the resolution effort.

    Chair partners