ISO 56000:2025
Innovation management — Fundamentals and vocabulary
Previous version:
ISO 56000:2020 [Withdrawn]
Innovation management — Fundamentals and vocabulary
ISO 56000:2025 FAQ
1) What is ISO 56000:2025?
The full name of ISO 56000: 2025 is Innovation Management- Fundamentals and Vocabulary. It is a set of definitions with deeper explanations. The 56000 document is the backbone of the ISO 56000 series by establishing a common terminology. It is the 2nd edition of the standard and replaces the ISO 56000: 2020.
2) How ISO 56000: 2025 being developed?
ISO 56000: 2025 is developed by ISO/TC279 Working Group 2 which has liaisons with among others organizations such as World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, WTO, The World Bank and OECD - OCDE. The project start from 2022 and finally published in Jan of 2005. Over 20 experts from countries participate the work.
3) Why ISO 56000 is important?
The document is important to secure a common understanding of what innovation is to ease communication with in an organization but also across organizations, but also to secure a common understanding in how to read other documents in the 56000 series. The document defines terms for and establishes the fundamental concepts and principles of innovation management and intended to help the user by establishing a coherent, consistent and common framework to:
a) understand the main terms, definitions, concepts and principles of innovation management;
b) support an organization to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an innovation management system;
c) support an organization to utilize other innovation management standards;
d) facilitate communication and create awareness of innovation activities internally and across organizations.
4) What is the relation with other standards on innovation management?
- a) ISO 56001 provides requirements for organizations to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an innovation management system.
- b) ISO 56002 gives guidance on how to establish, implement, maintain and continually improve an innovation management system with a focus on established organizations.
- c) ISO 56003 gives guidance on how to plan, prepare and engage for external innovation partnerships at the level of a project, programme or initiative.
- d) ISO/TR 56004 gives guidance on how to choose, prepare, conduct, measure and improve an innovation management assessment. It does not directly apply to the management system approach in this document.
- e) ISO 56005 gives guidance on how to manage intellectual property throughout the innovation processes and the development of an innovation initiative.
- f) ISO 56006 gives guidance on how to set up and support the strategic intelligence activities of continuous monitoring, intelligence dissemination and document control.
- g) ISO 56007 gives guidance on how to systematically manage opportunities and ideas to realize value from innovation activities and arrive at decisions for development.
- h) ISO 56008 gives guidance on how to develop, define, implement, evaluate and improve the measurements needed to effectively manage individual innovation initiatives.
- i) ISO/TS 56010 provides an understanding of the most essential concepts in innovation management. It is intended to be used as an introduction to the standards on innovation management developed by ISO/TC 279.
5) What is the difference between 56000: 2020 and 56000: 2025?
The main changes from 2020 to 2025 version is inclusion of new concepts with their definitions and some minor adjustments and improvements.
The element of sustainability and ecosystem has also got a more prominent presence in the document.
6) Based on 56000 description, what is the difference between innovation management & innovation management system?
Innovation management is how the company has structured the organization to work with innovation initiatives, and Innovation Management system is how innovation initiatives are managed with in the organization.