Method of synthesizing ideas based on more than 200,000 patents that aim to resolve more than 1,500 types of contradictions.A problem similar to yours has already been resolved by someone. Find out what guided the solution that someone found and you will have a direction to solve your problem.Innovation is not art, it is method.Altshuller, an innovation researcher, found that creativity can be systematized through the rules (algorithms) used by innovative people.An inventive principle is one of the "operations" that an inventor applies to solve the "problem" that gives rise to an "invention".Original solutions are rare.