This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International TRIZ Future Conference on Towards AI-Aided Invention and Innovation, TFC 2023, which was held in Offenburg, Germany, during September 12–14, 2023. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: AI and TRIZ;

​AI and TRIZ: Mapping the Evolutionary Journey of TRIZ and Pioneering Its Next S-Curve in the Age of AI-Aided Invention.- Question Answering with Transformers and Few-Shot Learning to find Inventive Solutions for IDM-TRIZ Problems and Contradictions in Patents.- TRIZ, Truth & AI.- Opening Up New Fields of Applications with TRIZ Reverse – Conceptual Framework, Software Application, and Implementation Challenges.- A Multi-Stage AI-based Approach for Automatic Analyzation of Bike Paths.- Intelligent Character Recognition of Handwritten Forms with Deep Neural Networks.- Innovation Logic: benefits of a TRIZ-like mind in AI or text analysis of patent literature.- AI based Pointer to Geometric Effects.- Assessing the environmental performance of the food industry using unsupervised machine learning.- Multi-domain and heterogeneous data driven innovative problem solving: Towards a unified representation framework.- Navigating the Knowledge Network: How Inter-Domain Information Pairing and Generative AI Can Enable Rapid Problem-Solving.- Enhancing Creativity in Deep Learning Models with SAVE-Inspired Activation Functions.- Sustainable development: Sustainability, TRIZ and Packaging.- Function-Oriented Search, TRIZ and the Sustainable Use of Information Resources.- Unified Eco-innovation Methodology Based on TRIZ and CK.- Classification of Nature-Inspired Inventive Principles for Eco-innovation and their Assignment to Environmental Problems in Chemical Industry.- Integrating TRIZ and MCDM for Innovative and Sustainable Decision-Making: A Case Study in the Life Cycle of Olive Oil.- How to Inspire Students for TRIZ – TRIZ as an Enabler for Product Development in a new Sustainable Study Program.- Problem modelling for sustainability in business environment by linking TRIZ and Systems Engineering.- The Law of Reliable Resource Supply: Making Altshuller’s Laws of System Evolution Sustainable.- Problem Analysis for Green Industrial Policy.- General Vision of TRIZ: TRIZ Ideas in a Systematic Presentation.- Partially defined Boolean functions in TRIZ.- Functional Value of TRIZ Components - universal Concept and direct Implications.- Use of Function Analysis in the Design of multi-functional products.- Functional Approach to Subversion Analysis in New Product Development.- Impact of theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) on innovation portfolio development.- Determination of Optimal Functionality.- TRIZ in marketing management: study of current situation.- TRIZ impact in Society: Using TRIZ to write a good thesis on time.- Improving Usability Services and User Experience of Online Museum Virtual Exhibition with TRIZ Theory.- An Experiment on the Impact of TRIZ-Inspired Thinking on Solving Insight Problems.- Bringing back a source – TRIZ in Social Science.- WTSP Report (6) Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Sites in the World (Preparing for Gamma Edition).- TRIZ And Chaos: First Principles For Emergency First Responders.- Assessing Business Excellence Approaches from the Perspective of Directors: Exploring the Role of TRIZ.- TRIZ-based model of social system.- TRIZ Case studies: Bubble Defect Mitigation for Semiconductor Lithography Process.- Research on Production Innovation Problem Identification Process Based on FRT.- The Impact of Using Resources on Waiting Time in the Queueing Model with FlexSim.- Incorporating TRIZ Methodology into Semi-Structured Interviews for Innovative Insights.- Dilemma or False Dilemma: A Sequence of Steps to Avoid the Trolley.- TRIZ-based Approach in Remodeling Invasive Glucometer.