For what it’s worth, theory of inventive problem solving is not a very good translation of теория решения изобретательских задач teorija rešenija izobretatelʹsk

For what it’s worth, theory of inventive problem solving is not a very good translation of теория решения изобретательских задач teorija rešenija izobretatelʹskih zadač: as far as I can see, it parses as [inventive [problem solving]] with inventive meaning something like “unconstrained by convention, prolific intellectually, embodying the spirit of invention”, for which the proper Russian is изобретательный izobretat-elʹ-n|yj; the original name has a different syntactic structure and uses изобретательский izobretat-elʹ-sk|ij “belonging to or characteristic of inventors”, so the proper translation would instead be something like theory of solving problems of invention, which is admittedly awkward (and doesn’t afford a snappy acronym) but at least successfully conveys the idea that the “invention” part pertains to the problems, not the solutions or the theory.