NF EN ISO 56000, X50-324 (01/2025)

1.1 This document provides the vocabulary, fundamental concepts and principles of innovation management and its systematic implementation. It applies to: (a) organizations implementing an innovation management system or carrying out innovation management reviews; (b) organizations that need to improve their ability to effectively manage innovation activities; (c) users, customers and other relevant interested parties (e.g. suppliers, partners, funding bodies, investors, universities and public authorities) seeking to ascertain the innovation capabilities of an organization; (d) organizations and interested parties seeking to improve communication through mutual understanding of the vocabulary used in the field of innovation management; (e) providers providing training, testing or advice in the field of innovation management and innovation management systems; f) persons developing innovation management and related standards. 1.2 This document is intended to apply to: a) all categories of organizations, regardless of legal form, sector, level of maturity or size; (b) all types of innovation concerning, for example, a product, a service, a process, a model and a method, ranging from incremental to radical innovation; c) all degrees of innovation, for example internal innovation, open innovation and innovation activities driven by uses, the market, technology and the fundamental expectations of the end user (design-driven) . This document specifies terms and definitions that apply to all standards relating to innovation management and innovation management systems developed by ISO/TC 279.
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