WTSP Report (5) Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Sites in the World: We Can Learn Full Scope of TRIZ-Related Works in the World

Abstract

World TRIZ-related Site Project (WTSP) is a volunteer-based international project working to build Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Websites in the World. It aims at creating a reliable information resource in the field of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies in general. We collect good websites widely and list the selected ones with brief or close annotations in categories. Starting in Dec. 2017, we built the Beta Edition of World WTSP Catalogs in 2020, which have good maintainable and extendible structure. We select websites using multi-aspect criteria, and grade them in 5 levels as: ◎ top about 30 sites, ○ next about 100, □ worthy in World Catalogs, △ worthy in Country Catalogs, and - not listed. We have recently re-visited the Around-TRIZ websites obtained by Internet surveys in 2019, and revised the Basic Catalog (with 30 ◎ sites and 143 ○ sites) and newly built the Extended Catalog (with 244 □ sites). On the other hand, WTSP World Catalogs of TRIZ Sites have been updated very little from the Beta Edition (with 23 ◎ sites and 39 ○ sites), while waiting for contributions of manuscripts from individual countries. We carried out Internet surveys of TRIZ sites in 52 individual countries, and detected 1200 + sites. For 40 (less active) countries of them, we selected 103 □ sites and 43 △ sites. For 12 other countries (including 6 TRIZ-active major countries) we detected 480 sites but not investigated them yet while knowing there must be many good TRIZ websites. Anyway, WTSP World Catalogs already have abundant reliable information of selected websites, and are certainly helpful for many professionals and users to study and apply TRIZ and Creative Problem Solving Methodologies in general.