Innovation is no longer a topic for debate, much less a fad and it is the key factor for any business. It ensures leadership and, especially, endurance within competitive innovation markets. The concept of innovation is broad. It is defined differently according to the authors, their frameworks and their interests. However, the literature highlights some general features that can capture its essence. Overall, innovation is a new concept. In order to improve a situation, this concept can be related to practice, method, way to teach certain subject content, procedure, tool or new customers... The aim of this paper is to understand the sources of various definitions and descriptions of participative innovation. In addition, the purpose is to identify management practices that can promote it. For this, we propose to answer a few questions: What are the different definitions attributed to participative innovation? Can we use the traditional tools of management to measure the various typologies of participative innovation?
