eTRIZ a portal for design creativity

This paper considers the use of a TRIZ interface to access internet embedded knowledge within the creative design process. Access to the knowledge available on the internet can massively enhance the relevance of TRIZ in the creative design process. As the internet continuously evolves it is clear that the know-how it makes available becomes ever more important. It is considered that, in the context of the creative design process, TRIZ can impose some order on what is a currently random knowledge acquisition process. The paper concludes that knowledge management process needed to configure and control the continuous addition of new (free) knowledge to the World Wide Web resources can be supported by the TRIZ process and that increasing the effectiveness of TRIZ as a creative design tool can best be accomplished in this way.