TS EN ISO 56000

TS EN ISO 56000 is a vocabulary standard that defines the fundamental concepts and terms used in innovation management. It provides a common language for understanding how organizations approach innovation, helping align strategy, processes, capability, opportunity and value creation across different sectors and organizational contexts.

A shared conceptual framework for innovation management

The standard focuses on clarifying the basic knowledge structure of innovation management. Innovation is broader than new product development: it also includes services, processes, business models and methods. A vocabulary document like this helps organisations communicate consistently, reduces ambiguity in terminology, and supports the broader management-system view of innovation.

According to the scope, it applies to all types of organizations regardless of sector, maturity level or size, as well as to different kinds of innovation and innovation approaches. This includes internal and open innovation, and user-, market-, design- and technology-driven activities. Its role is not to impose a specific performance target, but to establish a consistent understanding of the concepts used in innovation management.

• Innovation types such as product, service, process, model and method innovation
• Forms ranging from incremental improvement to radical and disruptive innovation
• Approaches including internal innovation and open innovation
• Common terminology for organizations of different sectors, sizes and maturity levels