Standards and innovation

Using standardisation from the early stages of developing new technologies is a key strategy to optimising their implementation, avoiding duplicities and inconsistencies, and identifying what common elements are necessary to progress, what needs additional research and what must be kept as part of each organisation's know-how. 

El tándem estandarización-protección de la propiedad intelectual debe aprovecharse al máximo para ampliar la difusión y utilización de los nuevos desarrollos, creando a su vez las bases para futuras innovaciones.

This is how sectors such as artificial intelligence, shared electronic registry technologies, blockchain, biotechnology, forensic technologies, advanced manufacture, 3D printing, etc., have understood it.

UNE junto con los organismos europeos e internacionales, mantienen una actitud proactiva identificando nuevas temáticas y sectores que pueden beneficiarse de la estandarización, por ejemplo mediante la elaboración de Estudios Prospectivos. Para ello contactamos con los actores principales y proponemos nuevos campos de trabajo, contrastándolos con las ideas ​y propuestas de la industria, servicios e investigación para ayudarles a cubrir sus necesidades​.

Increasing competences and performance levels of companies and organisations is effectively encouraged by the use of innovation management standards like UNE 166000 and ISO 56000. They help in various areas: to raise awareness on and add value to innovative features of a company's activity that are sometimes not identified as such; to systematise activities improving their efficiency; to understand market needs as drivers for innovation; to increase and optimise collaboration in order to generate value; and to promote the protection and exploitation of their intangible assets. In short, they allow companies and organisations to boost their competitiveness and sustainability in the medium to long term.