
ISO/TC 279

ISO/TC 279 is a technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Its purpose is to develop, maintain and promote standards in the fields of innovation management. The first plenary meeting of ISO/TC 279 was held in Paris on 4 to 5 December 2013.
Scope and mission.
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
Cultural Benefits
Organisational Benefits
Members.
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. France has the secretariat (AFNOR), located in Paris, and the chairmanship of this TC (Alice de Casanove). 
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, and UNIDO.
Structure.
Work on the development of standards is done by working groups (WGs), each of which deals with a particular field. 