Research Integrity and Participation Principles

NanoTRIZ applies the following principles to its research, mentoring and collaborative activities.

Research integrity and authorship

Participants and collaborators are expected to maintain accurate records, cite sources, avoid plagiarism, and distinguish hypotheses from validated findings. Authorship is assessed against ICMJE criteria and is based on significant intellectual or scholarly contribution, accountability for the work, and agreement among contributors. Contributions are recorded using CRediT roles so that the basis for authorship can be verified. Payment, participation, program duration, age, or program designation does not confer authorship, and author order is never determined by any of them.

NanoTRIZ voluntarily adopts the authorship principles of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2018) and Authorship: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (2019), issued jointly by the NHMRC, the Australian Research Council, and Universities Australia. NanoTRIZ is not a signatory institution and receives no NHMRC or ARC funding; adoption is voluntary.

Scope of research undertaken

NanoTRIZ projects are literature-based, computational, or analytical. NanoTRIZ does not undertake, supervise, or support research involving human participants, human tissue, identifiable personal data collected for research, or animals. It has no human research ethics committee and cannot provide ethics approval. Where a proposed project would require such approval, NanoTRIZ will decline it or require that it be conducted under the oversight of an institution able to provide it.

Work submitted for academic assessment

Where a participant's project may contribute to a thesis, dissertation, or other work submitted for academic assessment, NanoTRIZ requires written confirmation from the participant's supervisor or institution that external research mentoring is permitted, before the engagement begins. NanoTRIZ does not prepare, draft, write, edit, or complete any part of a work submitted for academic assessment.

Fees and academic outcomes

Program fees cover only the mentoring, digital workflows, tools, and resources specified in the applicable program documents. Fees do not purchase publication, authorship, academic credit, institutional affiliation, or any guaranteed external outcome. Certificates record participation or completion of agreed milestones only. Reduced-fee or supported places may be offered under separate written terms.

Mentoring and conflicts of interest

Mentoring and review decisions are based on the quality, feasibility, and progress of the work. Relevant financial, professional, or personal conflicts of interest are disclosed and managed.

NanoTRIZ discloses one structural conflict inherent to its current form. As a sole-trader initiative, the Founding Director is simultaneously the mentor, the recipient of program fees, and a potential co-author on participant work. The same conflict applies to any affiliated supervisor who is remunerated from program fees and may be a co-author on, or a decision-maker regarding, a participant's work.

Where a participant's work may lead to a publication involving the Founding Director or an affiliated supervisor as an author, the authorship decision is documented in writing against the criteria above, disclosed to the receiving journal or venue, and, for participants under 18, communicated to the parent or guardian before submission.

Relationship with SciViD. The Founding Director is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of SciViD (www.scivid.ai), a separate video-preprint platform operated by SciViD Pty Ltd. Taking part in a NanoTRIZ program gives no priority on SciViD and is not required to post there. Work by NanoTRIZ participants submitted to SciViD is decided by an unconflicted editor, or an independent moderator appointed for that submission, with no NanoTRIZ role; if independent screening cannot be arranged, posting is deferred. The relationship is disclosed on the posted item. Participants may submit their work to any journal, conference or preprint server they choose.

Responsible use of AI

AI-assisted tools may be used for defined research tasks, subject to verification, appropriate disclosure, citation, and confidentiality requirements. NanoTRIZ maintains an internal record of substantive AI use in each project. Participants remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, interpretation, and final content of their work.

Intellectual property and confidentiality

Ownership and permitted use of background IP, project IP, data, confidential information, and research outputs are defined in the relevant written agreement, agreed before collaboration begins. No general website statement overrides those project-specific terms.

Records

NanoTRIZ retains research and contribution records, including research logs, drafts, supervisor feedback, validation records, and AI-use records, for 7 years after a project ends, so that a participant's contribution can be verified if later questioned.

Privacy and public representation

Participant identities, roles, and outputs are published only with prior written consent for the specific use and wording. Parent or guardian consent is required for participants under 18. Internal program designations identify participation only and do not constitute employment, university appointment, institutional affiliation, or an accredited academic award.

Breaches of these principles

Allegations of fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, undisclosed AI use, or misrepresentation of contribution are investigated against the criteria above. Where an allegation is substantiated, NanoTRIZ may withdraw support for the output, correct or withdraw a certificate or verification document, decline to approve institutional affiliation, notify the receiving journal or venue, and end participation. Where the participant is affiliated with another institution, that institution is notified where its own rules require it.

Raising a concern

Concerns about research integrity, authorship, conduct, or participant safety may be sent to director@nanotriz.com. NanoTRIZ acknowledges a concern within 5 business days and provides a substantive response within 10 business days. Because NanoTRIZ currently operates as a sole trader, no internal review channel independent of the Founding Director exists. Concerns may also be raised directly with the receiving journal or publisher, the participant's school or university, the relevant consumer-protection or privacy authority, or, for online safety matters concerning a minor, the Australian eSafety Commissioner. These avenues may be used at any time and without first raising the matter with NanoTRIZ.

Institutional status

NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is a registered business name under which Alexander A. Solovev operates as an Australian sole trader, ABN 60 349 600 938, in Brisbane, Queensland. It is not a separately incorporated company. It is an independent, private, non-accredited research and innovation initiative. It is not a university, registered higher-education provider, RTO, or CRICOS provider, and does not issue government-accredited qualifications.

Legal and Program Status

NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is an independent, private Australian research and innovation initiative. It is not a university, registered higher education provider, registered training organisation, CRICOS provider, or accredited education provider. NanoTRIZ programs are optional, non-accredited research-enrichment and innovation activities. They do not confer AQF qualifications, nationally recognised VET credentials, university credit, academic appointments, professional licences, or eligibility for an Australian student visa. Participation does not guarantee publication, admission, scholarships, employment, funding, patents, visa outcomes, or commercial results.

NanoTRIZ may issue certificates recording participation or completion of its internal non-accredited programs. Internal program and project titles identify participation or defined responsibilities only; they do not constitute employment, university appointments, regulated professional titles, or recognised academic qualifications.

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 — that inventive problem solving can be studied, structured, and taught — to research methodology: problem selection, gap identification, hypothesis formation, evidence validation, and translation toward application. The name reflects intellectual lineage, not organisational affiliation.

NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, accredited by, or a member of any TRIZ association, school, or certification body, unless a specific relationship is expressly stated. NanoTRIZ does not deliver TRIZ practitioner training, does not administer TRIZ certification examinations, and does not issue TRIZ level or TRIZ Master certificates. Documentation provided to participants records their own research work and internal program status only.

NanoTRIZ does not issue official TRIZ certification. Any NanoTRIZ certificate relates only to participation in or completion of an internal, non-accredited NanoTRIZ program.

Use of NanoTRIZ Innovation Institute as a publication affiliation requires separate written approval for each research output and must accurately reflect the contributor’s documented role and the work undertaken within NanoTRIZ.