**2. A short introduction to the ISO 56000 series**

The innovation management norm (ISO 56000) contains different parts that are related and some of the parts are still draft, most of them have been recently published in the years 2021 and 2022. This new norm substitutes the older norm CEN/TS 16555- Parts 1 to 7.

ISO 56000 - Innovation management—Fundamentals and vocabulary, 2020 [33]: This includes definitions.

ISO 56001 - Innovation management—Innovation management system— Requirements, Draft, 2022 [34]: ISO 56001 and ISO 56002 are 1:1 related and while 56,001 defines requirements and the part 56002 provides guidelines about how to implement the requirements.

ISO 56002 - Innovation management—Innovation management system— Guidance, 2019 [35]: This includes guidelines about how to establish an innovation management system, how to build innovation leadership, how to plan innovation projects, how to adapt organizational structures and processes to support innovation, how to establish and implement innovation processes and how to monitor and track innovation, and finally how to create a continuous improvement cycle.

ISO 56003 - Innovation management—Tools and methods for innovation partnership—Guidance, 2019 [36]: This includes guidelines about how to build innovation partnerships and networks, how to select partners for innovation projects and initiatives, how to arrange partner alignments and agreements, and how to communicate and interact in innovation partnerships.

ISO TR 56004 - Innovation Management Assessment—Guidance, 2019 [37]: This includes guidelines about how to choose an innovation assessment method, and how to prepare, plan, and perform an assessment. It also includes various metrics examples about how to measure innovation.

ISO 56005 - Innovation management—Tools and methods for intellectual property management—Guidance, 2020 [38]: This includes guidelines about how to establish an IP (Intellectual Property) management and framework, explains why IP is required, and defines why and how to manage IP in different phases of the innovation process.

ISO 56006 - Innovation management—Tools and methods for strategic intelligence management—Guidance, 2021 [39]: This includes guidelines about how to establish strategic intelligence (fundamentals, how to collect data, analyze data, etc.) and how to use and communicate the data analysis as a result of strategic intelligence.

*Innovation Management System Assessment and Benchmarking DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.112556*

ISO DIS 56007—Innovation management—Tools and methods for idea management—Guidance, 2022 [40]: This includes guidelines about how to prepare idea management, how to establish idea management processes, and how to structure the organization to support idea management.

ISO 56008—Innovation management—Tools and methods for innovation operation measurements—Guidance, Draft [41]: This includes guidelines about how to use innovation indicators and metrics for innovation operation management.

ISO DTS 56010—Innovation management—Illustrative examples of ISO 56000, under development, 2022 [42]: This includes examples of how to successfully implement the guidelines of the norm.

TIMS analyzed the available ISO 56000 parts and elaborated an integrated version 1 of an innovation process assessment model, which is explained in the next chapter.
