This course will employ TRIZ as an innovation tool. TRIZ is a theory created to systematize processes and procedures related to innovation and creativity in the solution of problems. TRIZ is a Russian acronym which can be expressed in English as ‘Theory of Inventive Problems Solving’ and consists of a theory, operating procedures and a range of tools created by Genrich Saulovich Altshuller (1926-1998) from 1946, with the objective of capturing the creative process in technical and technological contexts, codifying it and making it repeatable and applicable, in short a proper theory of invention. TRIZ allows the analysis, the structuring of models and, finally, the solution of problems with a systematic approach based on a series of subsequent stages and operating tools. Up to this day, the TRIZ methodology has proved to be the most efficient to solve inventive problem.