A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Certifying Innovation: A Proposal for a Standard With
Innovation Management System (IMS)
Anna Arnò 1 , Stefano De Falco 2 and Guglielmo Trupiano 3
1
LUPTUniversity of Naples Federico II and AICTT (Italian Association for
Technology Transfer Culture promotion), Italy
2
TTO School of Sciences and Technologies University of Naples Federico II
and AICTT (Italian Association for Technology Transfer Culture promotion),
Italy
3
LUPTUniversity of Naples Federico II, Italy
annaelvira.arno@unina.it
sdefalco@unina.it
trupiano@unina.it
Abstract: Today it’s definitely known to everyone what Quality Management System is. A Quality Management
System (QMS) is the set of all connected and interdependent activities that affect the quality of a process, a
product or a service. Since the 80s the first Western companies, especially those Americans, started to realize
the importance of the quality development for the success of an organization. It 's always in the 80s that the first
of standards of the reference ISO, aimed to the quality were published. In 1987, in fact, the International
Organization for Standardization adopted the British code BS 5750 and published what is now called ISO 9000
series of standards. First of all, a cultural evolution, and then a technological revolution, is the history of the
quality. This important legacy in terms of know-how, best practices and experiences has been used by the Italian
Association for the promotion and the enhancement of the Culture of the Technology Transfer (AICTT), to
transfer the results obtained in the field of the quality to the field of the business innovation. For the first time in
Italy, but also in Europe, we speak of IMS, Innovation Management System as a means of certification. The core
of this certification, proposed in a innovative form by AICTT, is to detect firm's ability to innovate, but not with
regard to certification of the innovation made ex post, that is still a novelty in the panorama of certification
activities, but with reference to the firm’s ability of quantification of the tangible and intangible assets (human
capital, creativity, etc..), measured using a parametric method based on a proprietary panel of indicators that are
not statically linked each others, and free of any document of structural heaviness replaced by a fully web-based
platform, inserted in the circuit system of university-industry-bank. To this end, the AICTT has filed a trademark,
CTE (Company Technology Efficiency), which puts companies in a certain class of efficiency (the same way as it
does for appliances with respect to energy compliance) and based on this can aspire to a certain threshold of
credit in the industrial research.
Keywords: certifying innovation, innovation management system, technology transfer, audit, efficiency
1. Brief notes on the association AICTT
On April 19, 2011, with an official deed, has been officially established in Naples headquarters of the
National Association AICTT, for Italian TransferTechnologyCulture promotion. Following are already
planning the constitutions of other federal offices in other regions of Italy.
The Italian TransferTechnologyCulture Association aims to promote, encourage and create the
culture of technology transfer through the study, development and application of methodologies and
techniques for organizational design, management and continuous improvement of activities related
to innovation processes, products and services in different fields of reference.
Particularly, the Association:
� Promotes the understanding of the importance of technology transfer for the individual and
collective welfare in industry, government agencies, schools, service sector, in the service
industry and promotes the matching between universities, research centers and enterprises and
institutions;
� Provides opportunities for members to study and exchange of experiences;
� Liaises with other associations that have similar purposes;
� Supports the training of all interested parties who perform professional activities in innovation and
technology transfer.
To achieve these goals, the Association promotes and produces events (conferences, congresses,
conferences, courses, seminars, meetings, etc..); ensures the dissemination of news, publications
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