Accredited Innovation Lab (AIL)®

Accreditation of an Innovation Lab by IGI assures all affected stakeholders that this lab has been properly assessed, and that its design and operation therefore conform to IGI’s strict accreditation standards. No other organization prescribes this same level of accreditation standard for Innovation Labs as does IGI . Accreditation by IGI is therefore the global standard of accreditation for Innovation Labs.

Given growing economic pressures and the world’s accelerating pace of change, there is now a clear trend within businesses to establish Innovation Labs – facilities focused explicitly on helping businesses create new waves of growth and leadership in their markets. These labs must be fully capable of leading the charge forward into the unknown, in addition to establishing and developing whatever is “next” for the business.

Yet how can businesses know that their Innovation Labs have the right capabilities for doing this? How can they have the assurance they need that their Innovation Labs will in fact help lead them into the future in the best possible ways? And how do they know that they have captured world-class practices in the design and operation of these labs? For these reasons credible and reliable accreditation standard is needed.

The IGI Innovation Lab Accreditation is such a credible and reliable accreditation standard –a means by which businesses can develop the confidence they need in the design, operation, and capabilities of their Innovation Labs. The IGI Innovation Lab Accreditation stands alone as the sole such standard in the world to set the benchmark against what all world-class Innovation Labs must aspire.

The Innovation Labs accredited by GInI will bear IGI’s Accredited Innovation Lab badge. This distinction provides significant value to both the lab’s operators and the lab’s governing business.

IGI remains fully committed to pursuing excellence and continuous improvement in all activities relating to the IGI Accreditation Center and the IGI Accreditation Program. The Innovation Lab Accreditation Guidebook provided on this page sets forth the policies, procedures, and standards used to assess the design and operation of individual Innovation Labs, and to thereafter accredit them to IGI’s standards.

Businesses wishing to secure IGI Innovation Lab Accreditation must work through a IGI Authorized Training & Assessment Provider (ATAP)® and two IGI Authorized Innovation Assessors (AIAs)® of their choice to complete the Innovation Lab Assessment process and thereafter submit to IGI the Innovation Lab Assessment Report (ILAR). IGI Innovation Lab Accreditations are valid for two years and must be renewed via re-assessment every two years.