TRIZ-based technology-roadmapping

In companies there are many different variants of technology roadmapping in use (see the different chapters in this book). Each variant requires a specific process, in order to forecast future technologies concerning content and time. For this purpose tools from the theory of inventive problem solving are suggested in the following essay, in particular trends of technical systems evolution. They do not replace conventional creative thinking, but supplement it, and lead it in promising directions. Combined with a comprehensive process for the technology roadmapping they unfold their full effect.