ABSTRACT
Finding the starting point in an innovation process is the first step for innovation. Innovation is inseparable from the analysis of matters, affairs, and relations. Extenics establishes formalized basic-elements to describe matters, affairs and relations: matter-element, affair-element, and relation-element, which are collectively called basic-element. In addition, these basic-elements can form compound-elements to represent complicated matters and affairs. On such a basis, an extension model developed for a contradictory problem can be studied.
