This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International TRIZ Future Conference
on Automated Invention for Smart Industries held in Strasbourg France in October 2018 and
sponsored by IFIP WG 5.4.The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from
numerous submissions. They are organized in seven thematic sections: teaching of TRIZ TRIZ and
knowledge represenations biomimicry strategic company management association between TRIZ
and other methods TRIZ and the functional approach and the use of patent or text populations
as a data source.
