DIN EN ISO 56000:2025

Innovation management - Fundamentals and vocabulary (ISO 56000:2025); German version EN ISO 56000:2025

This document defines terms for and establishes the fundamental concepts and principles of innovation management. This document is applicable to: a) all types of organizations, regardless of type, sector, maturity-level or size; b) all types of innovations (e. g. product, service, process, model, method); c) all forms of innovation (e. g. incremental to radical, disruptive); d) all types of approaches (e. g. internal and open innovation, user-, market-, design- and technology-driven innovation activities). This document is 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. It can be used by: — organizations establishing and using an innovation management system or performing innovation management assessments; — organizations that need to improve their ability to effectively manage innovation activities; — users, customers and other relevant interested parties seeking confidence in the innovation capabilities of an organization; — organizations and interested parties seeking to improve communication through a common understanding of the vocabulary used in innovation management; — providers of education and training in the assessment of or consultancy for innovation management and innovation management systems; — developers of innovation management and related standards. This document specifies the terms and definitions that apply to all standards for innovation management and innovation management systems developed by ISO/TC 279.