Date
Sept. 1st(Thu) - Sept. 2nd(Fri), 2016 (2 days)

Venue
Bldg.No.63, Nishi-Waseda Campus, Waseda University (3-4-1, Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, 169-8555, Tokyo)
http://www.sci.waseda.ac.jp/eng/access/

Held by
The Japan TRIZ Society, NPO (JTS)

Joint Hosting by
Department of Business Design and Management,
Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering , Waseda University

Sponsored by
Intellectual Property Association of Japan
Robust Quality Engineering Society

Supported by
Japan Creativity Society
Japan Society for Design Engineering
Japanese Society of Applied Statistics
National Statistics Center
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Risk Analysis Research Center, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Society of Japanese Value Engineering
Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers

Main theme
Enrich your Creativity with TRIZ!

Purposes
#To provide an opportunity for openly presenting, discussing, and communicating on TRIZ,
a methodology for creative problem solving and innovation, and its related areas.
#To encourage the improvement of the TRIZ methodology itself and to enhance penetration,
promotion and application of TRIZ.
#To provide opportunities for making personal relationships among the people interested
in and working with TRIZ in Japan and in the world, and to encourage the understanding
and penetration of TRIZ.

Aims
#To openly call for contributions of presentations and participation not only from Japan but
also from all over the world, so as to make the Symposium an open conference.
#To help establish deeper and wider understanding of TRIZ and promote real use of TRIZ in
industries and in academia.
#To introduce TRIZ and make it to penetrate widely into people engaged in SMEs and at schools.
#A Symposium primarily Japanese national and partially (but as much as possible) international.
#To hold the General Assembly Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society within the Symposium period.

Contents
#Opening Address by Mr. Yuji Mihara Chairperson of he Jpan TRIZ society
"Opening Remarks"

#Keynote Lecture by Mr. Alexander Kudriavtsev (TRIZ Master, Practical Invention Center)
"Difficult Problems and New Horizons Development of the notion of Difficulty in TRIZ"

#Special Lecture by Dr. Akira Suzuki (Professor emeritus at Hokkaido University, The Nobel prize winner in Chemistry 2010)
"An Example of Useful Science : Organic Synthesis by Organoboron Coupling Reaction"

#Closing Address by Mr. Manabu Sawaguchi, Vice Chairperson of he Jpan TRIZ society
"The 12th TRIZ symposium closing a meeting"

#Agenda　　　　　Sheet 　　　 Table

#Abstracts　　　　from Overseas and Japan