6. Glossary

Innovation ouverte; Open innovation

A paradigm that suggests a shift from an internal, closed model to an external, open model in which companies interact with their environment to improve their capacity for innovation.

Technical contradictions resolution matrix; Contradictions matrix

Double-entry matrix linking contradictions expressed using two parameters (representing the two inputs) to the principles of invention.

Engineering parameters

Technical characteristics for expressing contradictions. There are 39 of them.

Inventive principles; Principes d'invention

There are 40 inventive solution invariants proposed in the past by inventors, subdivided into sub-categories.

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