BS EN ISO 56000:2021

This standard BS EN ISO 56000:2021 Innovation management. Fundamentals and vocabulary is classified in these ICS categories:

• 03.100.40 Research and development
• 03.100.01 Company organization and management in general
• 01.040.03 Services. Company organization, management and quality. Administration. Transport. Sociology. (Vocabularies)

1.1

This document provides the vocabulary, fundamental concepts and principles of innovation management and its systematic implementation. It is applicable to:

1. organizations implementing an innovation management system or performing innovation management assessments;

2. organizations that need to improve their ability to effectively manage innovation activities;

3. users, customers and other relevant interested parties (e.g. suppliers, partners, funding organizations, investors, universities and public authorities) seeking confidence in the innovation capabilities of an organization;

4. organizations and interested parties seeking to improve communication through a common understanding of the vocabulary used in innovation management;

5. providers of training in, assessment of, or consultancy for, innovation management and innovation management systems;

6. developers of innovation management and related standards.

1.2

This document is intended to be applicable to:

1. all types of organizations, regardless of type, sector, maturity-level or size;

2. all types of innovations, e.g. product, service, process, model and method, ranging from incremental to radical;

3. all types of approaches, e.g. internal and open innovation, user-, market-, technology- and design-driven innovation activities.

This document specifies the terms and definitions applicable to all innovation management and innovation management system standards developed by ISO/TC 279.