About NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute
NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is an independent Australian research and innovation initiative founded by Alexander A. Solovev, PhD. It develops structured approaches to research problem framing, evidence analysis, TRIZ-informed innovation, responsible AI use, and the translation of scientific ideas into testable research and development directions. TRIZ attribution and independence. TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) was developed by Genrich Altshuller and colleagues; NanoTRIZ acknowledges that work and applies its central proposition to research methodology. The name reflects intellectual lineage, not organisational affiliation. NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, accredited by, or a member of any TRIZ association, school, or certification body unless expressly stated. NanoTRIZ does not deliver TRIZ practitioner training, administer TRIZ certification examinations, or issue TRIZ level or TRIZ Master certificates.
Our Mission
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Identify significant research questions, knowledge gaps and technical contradictions
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Develop evidence-traceable hypotheses, solution pathways and validation plans
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Support research analysis and defined industry innovation projects
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Provide non-accredited research mentoring and portfolio development
Towards Systematic Discovery
Genrich Altshuller argued that inventive problem solving is not purely accidental — that it can be studied, structured and taught. NanoTRIZ extends this direction from invention toward scientific research, exploring how TRIZ-informed reasoning may be combined with scientific databases, responsible AI-assisted analysis, modelling, simulation, visualisation and experimental validation.
These methods may assist researchers in organising evidence, identifying gaps and comparing hypotheses. Researchers remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, interpretation, attribution and final conclusions of their work.
Research and Industry Activities
NanoTRIZ offers defined research, analysis and innovation projects. Activities may include literature and technology mapping, technical problem framing, evidence review, comparison of solution pathways, research planning and scientific communication.
Project scope, confidentiality, intellectual property, deliverables, timelines and fees are agreed in writing before work begins. Experimental development or prototyping is undertaken only where suitable resources and collaborations are available. No technical, commercial, publication, patent or investment outcome is guaranteed.
Research Mentoring
NanoTRIZ provides optional, non-accredited research enrichment and mentoring, delivered online and subject to a monthly program access fee stated before enrolment. Participants may receive structured guidance in literature analysis, responsible AI use, research planning, academic writing, scientific communication and portfolio development.
NanoTRIZ is not a university, registered higher-education provider, RTO or CRICOS provider. It does not award AQF qualifications, nationally recognised credentials, university credit, institutional affiliation or formal academic appointments. Only registered providers may issue recognised higher-education or nationally recognised VET qualifications; CRICOS applies to providers enrolling students studying in Australia on student visas.
Participation does not guarantee publication, admission, scholarships, employment, patents, funding or visa outcomes. Internal program titles and certificates record participation only.
Legal and Operational Status
NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is a registered Australian business name operated by Alexander Aleksandrovic Solovev as an individual sole trader under ABN 60 349 600 938. The business name is not a separate incorporated company, university or accredited education institution. Under Australian law, a sole trader business is not legally separate from its owner.
Founder
NanoTRIZ was founded by Alexander A. Solovev, PhD — Professor of Materials Science at Fudan University (2015–2024), with research experience in nanotechnology, microfluidics, advanced materials and micro/nanomachines.
Towards a Theory of Systematic Discovery
Modern science provides rigorous methods for measurement, reproducibility, statistical analysis, modelling, peer review, and experimental validation. These address how claims are tested. They say less about the stage that precedes testing: how researchers identify significant questions, anomalies, contradictions, knowledge gaps, and promising directions for investigation.
In 1956, Genrich Altshuller and Raphael Shapiro published the first account of what became TRIZ — the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving — arguing that invention follows identifiable patterns and can be studied and taught rather than left to chance. TRIZ was derived from the analysis of patent literature and addresses engineering invention.
NanoTRIZ extends this direction from invention to scientific research, combining TRIZ-informed problem framing with responsible AI-assisted analysis, scientific databases, modelling, simulation, visualisation, and experimental methods. Whether contradiction-based reasoning transfers usefully from engineering to scientific research is an open question, and testing it is part of our work.
These tools may help researchers map knowledge gaps, compare hypotheses, and evaluate research directions. Researchers remain responsible for interpretation, accuracy, originality, citation, and final conclusions.
The resulting workflow moves from anomaly to research question, from contradiction to hypothesis, from hypothesis to model, and from model to expe
