Standardization and innovation management

Abstract

Innovation management enables organizations to focus on competitiveness and successful performance. Standardization can enhance organizational capabilities in order to be aligned with national and international best practices as well as to develop internal competences, routines and processes that can leverage an innovation journey towards excellence. At national and international levels, evidence demonstrates the importance of standardization, as a body of knowledge, to contribute to business innovation and to increase competitiveness and realization of value.