This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, TFC 2020, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in October 2020 and sponsored by IFIP WG 5.4. They are organized in the following thematic sections: computing TRIZ; tools and techniques of TRIZ for enhancing design;

Computing TRIZ.- Managing AI Technologies in Earthwork Construction: A TRIZ-based Innovation Approach.- TRIZ Driven Identification of AI Application to Improve Navigation of Mobile Autonomous Robots.- Real-time Contradiction Matrix of a given field using unstructured texts of patent contents and Natural Language Processing.- Algorithmic approach for Idea landscaping and prioritization.- Conceptual semantic analysis of patents and scientific publications based on TRIZ tools.- Build Links between Problems and Solutions in the Patent.- Summarization as a denoising extraction tool.- Problem-Solving Tools as Methods for Managing the Information Content of Systems.- Education and Pedagogy.- Easy-to-use Ideation Technique based on Five Cross-Industry Analogies Enhances Engineering Creativity of Students and Specialists.- MOOCs vs Face to Face (F2F) model: what relevance for creativity development?.- Effective improvement solutions in organizations using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and TRIZ: A case study in higher education.- Understanding and overcoming the low utilization rate of ARIZ in TRIZ practices.- Sustainable Development.- Excesses in Engineering Systems: a Helpful Resource.- Learning Eco-Innovation from Nature: towards Identification of Solution Principles without Secondary Eco-Problems.- A future eco-design framework based on TRIZ’s contradictions and Bio-Inspired Design.- TRIZ to solve challenges for designing sustainable, intelligent and inclusive buildings.- Tools and Techniques of TRIZ for Enhancing Design.- Application of TRIZ Substance-Field Analysis and Situational Analysis for risk analysis and development of common language among stakeholders.- How to organize a Knowledge base using TRIZ Evolution tree.- An Approach of Product-type Process Trimming.- High Power Density Speed Reducers: a TRIZ based classification of mechanical solutions.- TRIZ and System Engineering.- A systematic innovation process oriented to multi-disciplinary.- Eliminating disadvantages by changing transitions in a state machine cause-effect model.- Contribution to TRIZ progress in combining lean and Inventive Design Method.- Quantification of influences between components, functions and process usage stages by linking TRIZ Methods and Systems Engineering.- TRIZ and Complexity.- Network of Contradictions Analysis in Marketing Information Quality Management.- Feature selection-based approach for generalized contradiction recognition.- Flow structure information model for multi-flow problem analysis of complex systems.- Multi-conflict problem resolution process model of complex technical system.- Cross-fertilization of TRIZ for Innovation Management.- A Study on the Effect of Improved Collective Intelligence Combined with TRIZ Methodology for Solving Complex Technology Systems.- The Man and its Technical Systems.- Quantifying sustainable patents for enhancing ESG factors using bibliometric indicators from patentportfolio valuation.- Method about Patent Design Around Based on Technological Evolution.- Dynamization and Real Options – Discussing the Economic Success of Design Inventions.- TRIZ-based approach for improving the adoption of Open Innovation 2.0.