Webinar on Growing your Business with Innovation Management Standards

The webinar named “Growing your business with innovation management standards” was organized by Small Business Standards (SBS) in collaboration with experts from ISO/TC 279 – Innovation Management on 1^st Jun 2022. In the beginning, Ms. Maitane Olabarria (Secretary General, SBS) and Mr. Johan Claire (Chairperson – ISO/TC 279) gave welcome speech. 

The first part discussed “The Relation between Innovation and Standard”.

Ms. Belen Suarez (SBS expert in ISO/TC 279 WG3) was the first speaker who presented the topic named “The importance of fostering a culture of innovation and the role of standards”. She briefed in four dimensions and they were Creativity & Learning, Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Motivation & Relationship, and Market Orientation. 

She also introduced the IMS standard framework and its non-linear and non-sequential approach for innovation.  

Mr. Carlos Lopez Rodriguez (Policy Officer ICT Standardisation Sector, European Commission) was second speaker and his topic was “ICT standardization initiatives related to innovation, SMEs and education”. He firstly briefed how standard bridge the innovation gap for impact at global markets. 

Then he mentioned Research and Innovation Framework Programme which was funded by EU for supporting SMEs in standardization. 

Finally, he introduced Standards Academy in EU that served as a knowledge-hub on key factors of the standardization ecosystem. Some of their programs performed large-scale training through workshops for different levels of standardization skills (Details: www.standict.eu/euos-academy)

The second part of webinar is the ISO 56000 family of standards and their added value for SMEs.

The third speaker was Ms. Isabel Caetano (Portuguese Head of Delegation at ISO/TC279) and her presentation title was “Introduction of the ISO 56000 family of standards”. In the beginning, she briefed the ISO 56000 family’s development history and innovation principles.

Finally, she briefed the structure of ISO 56002.

The fourth speaker was Dr. Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu (ISO56008 Project Leader - Tools and methods for innovation operation measurements) and his topic named “SBS Innovation Management Town Hall” and he stated the goal of innovation including to create value, ensure sustainability and enhance competitiveness.

Then he briefed the innovation initiative, process and portfolio to create value.

At the end, Dr. Sorin introduced ISO 56008 structure.

The last speakers were Mr. Ismael Arribas (CEO, Kufud) and Mr. Hiro Nishiguchi (Managing Director at Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Japan) and their topic named “Benefits and challenges of SMEs implementing Innovation Management Standards”. Firstly, Mr. Ismael Arribas briefed their current situation and three levels of understanding innovation.

Then he concluded innovation that impact in new regulations through proportionality, coherence and the distance to market.

And then Mr. Hiro Nishiguchi self-introduced and said the innovation activities aimed to reduce the uncertainty and increase the feasibility.

Lastly, he identified four factors to be considered between SMEs and Innovation Management System.

Reference:

ISO/TC 279 - https://www.iso.org/committee/4587737.html

20220616: ISO/TC 279 Innovation Management Virtual Meeting - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2022/06/isotc-279-innovation-management-virtual.html