Innovation is vital to competitiveness and growth in organizations. The awareness on the implementation of innovation in organizations regardless of their size or economic sector, has generated interest in research of everything related to the subject innovation. It performed a review of the literature that identifies those factors, which subsequently can be identified characteristics and key elements that favor the capacity for innovation in an organization. In this document a manual or a method to follow to become innovative organizations is not provided, but if you identify which factors favor and relate to the ability of organizational innovation.