Saint-Etienne School of Economics
Master in Data Science and Innovation ManagementSaint-Étienne, France
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
French, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Master in Data Science and Innovation Management combines technical knowledge in data science with strategic insight into innovation management. You'll explore data analysis, machine learning, and innovation strategies designed for leading organizations in a data-driven economy. The program typically spans one year of full-time study.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue various roles, including data analyst, data scientist, innovation manager, and strategy consultant in sectors like technology, finance, and healthcare. They can lead data initiatives that drive innovation and improve decision-making processes across organizations.
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Introduction
Strategic use of information
- Economic Intelligence Approach
- Strategic, scientific and technical, territorial watch
- Strategy and foresight
- Information law
- Innovation policies
Control of innovative activities
- Economics of innovation
- Management of innovative projects
- Innovation and industrial property law
- Innovation management
- Financing innovation
Information engineering
- Computer networks and security
- Information system and knowledge management
- Knowledge extraction and data mining
- Automatic standby tools
- Machine learning
- Business intelligence
Specificities :
- Possibility of co-diploma with Canada, by completing the first year of a master's degree at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi
- Access to specialized software and databases
- Conferences and business intelligence workshop
- Professional integration workshop
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Curriculum
Business partnerships:
- Students can gain professional experience in the fields of innovation management and monitoring, particularly through:
- projects carried out in groups
- Mandatory internship of 3 months in Master 1 and 4 to 6 months in Master 2.
- They can also attend conferences and seminars given by external speakers (managers, business executives, consultants, etc.).
- projects carried out in groups
- Mandatory internship of 3 months in Master 1 and 4 to 6 months in Master 2.
- They can also attend conferences and seminars given by external speakers (managers, business executives, consultants, etc.).
Program Outcome
Master information exploitation techniques to transform information into a strategic asset within the framework of innovative activities:
- Use data effectively, organize the company's information systems and implement means of archiving, exchanging and disseminating information (networks, internet, groupware, etc.).
- Set up a monitoring unit; master the types of monitoring useful for the management of innovative projects within companies or within the framework of territorial governance.
- Develop innovation projects, knowing how to identify opportunities and risks linked to market and technological developments, and preserve the company's technological heritage.
Career Opportunities
And after ? What professional opportunities?
- In sensitive competitive sectors or identified as strategic: Monitor, Business Intelligence Consultant, Sales/Marketing Strategy Manager. Responsible for information and communication management, Business developer
- In state services, local authorities, parapublic organizations, development agencies, cci, competitiveness clusters, technical centers: Research manager, Data scientist, Monitoring unit facilitator, Economic Intelligence trainer.
- In innovative sectors: Project manager, R&D department head, GDPR manager.
- They will be for example: Executive responsible for managing technological changes, monitoring and observing competition, monitoring unit leader, responsible for Territorial Economic Intelligence in institutions or consular organizations, study manager in local authorities or development agencies, data manager or data manager in the public or private sector, consultant in service provider companies in the field of financing innovation and Economic Intelligence.