Innovation Committee Charter
A charter template covering an innovation committee's mandate, membership, decision authority and meeting cadence, so the committee governs rather than merely convenes.
Innovation committees frequently lack the one thing that makes them useful: authority to commit resources. Without it, they become a review body that slows work without unblocking it.
This charter defines the mandate, who sits on the committee and why, what it can approve at what threshold, how often it meets, and what it explicitly does not decide.
Revisit it annually. Committee composition tends to outlive its rationale.
Charter template covering committee mandate, membership and cadence. This tool is part of the InnoLead Tools library — a set of editable templates drawn from what our members use to run innovation functions inside large organizations.
- Download the document and drop in your organization's name, logo, and terminology.
- Delete the prompts you don't need; the structure matters more than the boilerplate.
- Circulate a draft to two or three stakeholders before you socialize it broadly.
