Preface by the author _15
Chapter 1
Human needs ― the main motive force of human actions
1.1 Basic concepts related to human needs _24
1.2 The reasons for the emergence and development of human needs _ 31
1.2.1 Environment is the main source of human needs _31
1.2.2 Insufficient protection of a man from threats _35
1.2.3 Insufficiently high level of population living standards _38
1.2.4 Manias and phobias _40
1.2.5 False needs _41
1.2.6 Noosphere and problems of sustainable development _43
1.3 Taxonomy of human needs _45
1.4 Phasing of human needs realization _47
1.4.1 The principle that determines the sequence of stages _47
1.4.2 Formation of technical system’s functions and properties _51
1.4.3 Formation of technical system’s functional structures _55
1.4.4 Formation of technical system’s operation principles _58
1.4.5 Technical decisions formation _63
1.4.6 Optimization of property parameters in technical decisions _66
1.4.7 Creation of a technical system and its life cycle _67
1.4.8 Characteristic phases of a technical system inception (creation),
development and withering away _68

Chapter 2
Realization of human needs ― a creative process
2.1 Basic concepts of the creative process and scientific-technical creativity _71
2.2 The concept of "new" in scientific and technical creativity _74
2.3 Factors affecting the effectiveness of scientific and technical creativity _76
2.3.1 The efficiency level of knowledge convergence and the basal principle of
heuristics _76
2.3.2 Reproductive and productive knowledge _79
2.3.3 Creativity barriers _88
2.3.4 Qualities of a creative person _91
2.3.5 Motivation for creativity _93

Chapter 3
Scientific and technical (and other) creativity as the formation
and implementation of designs
3.1 Basic design concepts _97
3.2 Systematic methodology of design activities _98
3.2.1 Stages of design activities and their effectiveness _98
3.2.2 Strategy of technical systems design _102
3.2.2.1 Overview of design strategies _102
3.2.2.2 Strategy for increasing the results efficiency of technical systems’
design _103
3.2.2.3 Strategy for improving analogs of technical systems or creating new
generations of technical systems _104
3.2.2.4 Strategy for creating pioneering technical systems _105
3.2.3 Basic design tactics _105
3.2.3.1 Direct analogy tactics _105
3.2.3.2 Iterative approximations tactics _109
3.2.3.3 Creating pioneer technical systems tactics _112
3.3 Design result assessment and selection _112

Chapter 4
Contradictions in fulfillment of human needs
4.1 Basic concepts related to contradictions and types of contradictions _115
4.2 Typical and "physical" ("intensified") contradictions in technical systems _119

Chapter 5
General information on methods and means for resolving contradictions
in technical systems
5.1 Traditional methods and means based on the use of reproductive knowledge
_127
5.1.1 "Trial and error" method _127
5.1.2 Intuition and insight _127
5.1.3 Combinatorics _130
5.1.4 Inference by analogy (method of analogies) _133
5.1.5 Inference caused by associations _140
5.1.6 Imagination (fantasizing) _143
5.2 Heuristics, based on the use of productive knowledge for intensification of
innovative activity _151
5.2.1 General information about heuristics _151
5.2.2 The concept of the ideal final result _153
5.2.3 Models of creative activity _157
5.2.4 "Old" and "new" innovative cultures _161

Chapter 6
Methods and means used at the stages of setting, solving the problem
and commercialization of the result
6.1 General information about the stages of setting, solving the problem and
commercialization of the result _170
6.2 Problem setting _172
6.2.1 Once again about false needs _172
6.2.2 Natturalhuman needs and their use when setting a problem _173
6.2.2.1 Continuous and periodic the most important natural needs _173
6.2.2.2 Fulfillment of the most important human needs _178
6.2.3 Criteria for the progressive development of technical systems _179
6.2.3.1 Essence of progressive development criterion _179
6.2.3.2 Methodology for the formation of criteria for the progressive
development of technical systems _183
6.2.3.3 Examples of typical criteria for progressive development for various
classes of technical systems _184
6.2.3.4 Examples of directions formation for the implementation of criteria
for the progressive development of technical systems at various
stages of design _187
6.2.4 Formation of the ideal final result _187
6.2.5 Correctly formulated functions of a technical system when setting a
problem as the key of its successful solution _189
6.2.5.1 Rules for the formulation of functions _189
6.2.6 Laws and patterns of technical systems development and their use when
setting a problem _197
6.2.6.1 General information about the laws of technical systems
development _197
6.2.6.2 The law of technical systems stage development _199
6.2.6.3 The law of progressive evolution of technical systems _ 203
6.2.6.4 The law of correspondence between functions and the functional
structure of a technical system _205
6.2.7 Patterns in the development of technical systems _206
6.2.7.1 General information about patterns in the development of technical
systems _206
6.2.7.2 The pattern of TS development with a change in the properties of the
surfaces of TS elements _213
6.2.7.3 The pattern of TS development with switching to new types
of converted energy or field _214
6.2.7.4 The pattern of TS development with switching to new types
of mechanical movement _215
6.2.7.5 The pattern of TS development with a change in degrees number
of elements motion freedom in TS _215
6.2.7.6 The pattern of TS development with a change in the geometric
characteristics of objects mechanical contact _217
6.2.7.7 The pattern of TS development with a change in the configuration
of the elements of TS functional structure and the connections
between them in space _219
6.2.7.8 The pattern of TS development with a change in the relative position
of a pair of elements in TS _220
6.2.7.9 The pattern of TS development with a change in the geometric
characteristics that determine the shape of TS elements _220
6.2.7.10 The pattern of TS development with switching to new types of TS
elements symmetry _221
6.2.7.11 The pattern of TS development with a change in the characteristics
of the empty space in TS _222
6.2.7.12 The pattern of TS development with dividing TS elements into
parts _223
6.2.7.13 The pattern of TS development with switching to new connection
types of TS elements _224
6.2.7.14 The pattern of TS development with a change in the spatial
distribution of TS element’s substance properties and their
anisotropy _225
6.2.7.15 On the high heuristicity of generalized descriptions of TS
development patterns and the approach to the formation of such
descriptions _226
6.2.7.16 Generalized descriptions of TS development patterns and
forecasting new stages of TS development _230
6.2.7.17 The technique of using TS development patterns _ 240
6.2.7.18 Forecasting new patterns of TS development _241
6.2.7.19 Environmental laws _241
6.2.8 "Controlling", "good" and "bad" verbs for the formation of TS functions
_242
6.2.9 "Good" and "bad" adjectives to form TS properties _243
6.2.10 High creativity of using adjectives "smart" and "clean" when setting a task
_250
6.2.11 Creativity of using synonyms of verbs and adjectives when setting a task
_253
6.2.12 Metaphors and their use when setting a task _254
6.2.13 Focal Object Method _257
6.2.14 The "ascent-descent" method and its use when setting a task _261
6.2.15 Generalized methodological advice when setting a task _265
6.3 Problem solution _267
6.3.1 Functional cost analysis and synthesis of technical systems _267
6.3.2 Heuristic techniques _267
6.3.3 Intensified contradictions in technical systems and standards for their
resolution _275
6.3.4 Morphological analysis and synthesis of technical systems _281
6.3.5 Description of functional structures using elementary operations _283
6.3.6 The method of forming the principles of technical systems operation
based on physical, biological, chemical, geometric and economic effects
and phenomena _287
6.3.7 Traditional and non-traditional (hidden) resources and their use in
scientific and technical creativity _295
6.3.7.1 Traditional resources _295
6.3.7.2 Non-traditional (hidden) resources _296
6.3.7.3 Characteristics of non-traditional (hidden) resource classes _300
6.3.7.4 The technique for identifying and using non-traditional (hidden)
resources _301
6.3.8 Constructive mathematics, or the "STC +" operator _307
6.3.9 Use of laws and patterns of technical systems development _308
6.3.10 Use of materials with unusual properties _309
6.3.11 The use of illusions in technical and artistic creation _310
6.4 Formation of problem solving results _313
6.4.1 Formation of a variety of technical and other solutions _313
6.4.2 Protection of intellectual activity results and means of individualization
_313
6.4.3 Commercialization or other use of problem solving results _315
6.4.4 Determination of the direction for further improvement of a technical
system _315
6.5 Example of generating an idea and forming its effective technical decision using
heuristics _316
6.6 One hundred outstanding achievements of humanity _317
6.7 Promising directions for the development of technical systems _317

Chapter 7
Training of creative professionals
7.1 The growing demand for creative professionals and the limitation of vocational
education system _322
7.2 Formula for creative pedagogy _323
7.3 The functional structure of developed creative (projective) pedagogy _325
7.4 Didactics of creative (projective) pedagogy _329
7.5 On the criteria for the creativity of curricula, textbooks and manuals _330
7.6 Teaching children scientific and technical creativity _330
7.7 Prejudices and delusions of humanity, protection from frustration and "collapse
of the last hope" _331

Chapter 8
G.S. Altshuller is certainly great, but ... _335
Conclusion _345