ISO TC 279

The scope of ISO TC 279 is "Standardization of terminology, tools, methods and interactions between relevant parties to enable innovation".

Standards published with the ISO 56000 series (formerly ISO 50500), see below. Standards on innovation management will allow organisations to share, harmonise their best practices in innovation management. As the standards are providing a baseline for innovation management, they will help to structure and improve the consulting in innovation management. For the (public or private) organisations developing innovations, this standards family will facilitate collaboration and also develop the capability to innovate and to bring innovations successfully to market. These standards are a set of best practices begins upon the leadership of the top management with the confirmation of the organisation's strategy. The standard family is designed to support innovation in organisations whatever origin, type, size etc are. Nevertheless ISO 56001 and ISO 56002 do not address specific innovation management systems such as temporary organisations (for example: startup, consortium...).

The standards are providing guidance only: there are no requirements. They cannot be the support for any certification or any audit.

The expected benefits of ISO 56000 series are listed below:

Market Benefits

• Provide guidance on how an organization can fulfil unmet customer needs
• Increase business opportunities and open new markets
• Lead to the consequent reduction in trade barriers
• Reduce time to market
• Enhance the competitiveness of various organizations
• Answer to the need of both developed and emerging countries

Cultural Benefits

• Develop open‐mindedness to accept new business models and methods
• Promote the growth of an innovation culture with a global objective
• Facilitate the implementation of partnerships
• Improve collaboration and communication on a global scale
• Implement social responsibility in the organization's innovation process

Organisational Benefits

• Save cost and reduce risk when innovating and collaborating across borders due to the development of standard tools
• Increase the organization ability to take decisions: test and try, fail fast, capability to take reasonable risks, facing challenges and world changes...
• Improve the efficiency and the performance of the organizations to produce innovation
• Improve results of innovation process and contributes to monitor the return of investments made in innovation
• Share a globally accepted ‘common language’ for innovation management
• Evaluate the progress of the organisation and identify and share good practices in innovation management

Membership of TC 279 is open to any national body ISO member. A member can be either participating (P) or observing (O), with the difference mainly being the ability to vote on proposed standards. There are a number of countries that are active participants of TC 279 as well as a number of observing countries.[1] France has the secretariat (AFNOR), located in Paris, and the chairmanship of this TC (Alice de Casanove).[2]

Other organizations can participate as Liaison Members, some of which are internal to ISO/IEC and some of which are external. The external organizations that are in liaison with TC 279 are:

• OECD
• WIPO
• WTO
• CERN
• World Bank
• UNIDO

Work on the development of standards is done by working groups (WGs), each of which deals with a particular field.

• International Organization for Standardization
• List of ISO standards

• https://fr.slideshare.net/AlicedeCasanove/iso-50500-series-innovation-management
• https://fr.slideshare.net/AlicedeCasanove/news-capsule-november-2017-on-works-in-iso-tc-279-innovation-management-iso-50-500-series
• ISO TC 279 Business Plan
• http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards_development/list_of_iso_technical_committees/iso_technical_committee.htm?commid=4587737
• https://www.slideshare.net/sonia393/the-why-what-and-how-of-innovation-management-iso-tc-279?trk=v-feed