CEN/TC 389 Innovation Management Andreea Gulacsi agulacsi@cencenelec.eu
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Other types of documents Technical Specification (TS) When: No immediate need/enough consensus for EN Subject still under technical development May act as a pre-standard No obligation to withdraw conflicting national standards Technical Report (TR) Informative material (ex: data from a survey, state of the art on a particular subject, experiences in a specific field…)
History of CEN/TC 389 Innovation Management Created by CEN in November 2008 In line with the CEN internal objective “to encourage more standards to support a culture of innovation in Europe” Previously BT/WG 201 “Research, development and Innovation” had examined feasibility to develop European standards in this field Secretariat and Chairmanship: AENOR (Spain). Regular participants: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK. 5 plenary meetings held until this moment. Note: BT/WG 201 was created on the initiative of Spain which already had an innovation management national standards. Other countries like Portugal, UK, etc also had national standards, reports, etc in this area
Working Groups WG 1: Collaboration and Creativity Management WG 2: Innovation Management System WG 3: Innovation Management Assessment WG 4: Design Thinking WG 5: Intellectual Property Management WG 6: Strategic Intelligence Management
General agreements Documents not intended to be certifiable. Oriented to all kind of organizations, with special attention to SMEs. Type of deliverable: family of CEN/TS. Innovation Management (IM)System structure according to Draft ISO Guide 83 on the drafting of management system Standards IM System: Complete and self-standing document. Further in-depth information on concrete aspects given in additional “focus on” documents for advanced users. Common Terminology issued in a separated document. Note: Draft ISO Guide 83 High level structure and identical text for management system standards and common core management system terms and definitions
Structure of documents
Steps in the development of a TS Technical Committee CEN national members in Technical Committee TIMEFRAME: 21,5 MONTHS TC approval by weighted vote Technical Specification Draft TS
Working plan 1st Step: Drafting of the Innovation Management System document (WG 2). 2nd Step: Contents other than those included in the Innovation Management System, developed in further documents (other WGs).
Time Schedule
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Thank you for your attention! CCMC responsible for TC 389 – Ms. Maitane Olabarria molabarria@cencenelec.eu