Master Data Science and Innovation ManagementProgram flyer

1. Aim
2. Advantages of the program
3. Who is it for?
4. Teaching method
5. The program
6. Internship
7. Entry requirements / How to apply?
8. Grants and scholarships
9. Contacts

Aim

The Master Data Science and Innovation Management, a state-recognised degree, awarded after five years of higher education, caters to the new needs of businesses in terms of economic monitoring, use of data, and innovation management.
This Master program offers students with an economics, management or engineering background career-oriented training in the field of competitive intelligence and the management of innovative projects.
This implies constant interaction with data sources and information networks, mastery of data processing techniques, and the necessary economic knowledge and management skills to be able to harness such data to feed into corporate strategy. 

Advantages of the program

Double degree with Canada

Students wishing to join the Master Data Science and Innovation Management in the second year can apply to spend the first year of the Master’s program at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC).

They will qualify for a double degree – the Master Data Science and Innovation Management and the Canadian Master in Organisational Management. For further details, contact the Head of International Relations. (richard.baron @ univ-st-etienne.fr)

Partnership with the engineering schools Mines Saint-Étienne, Centrale Lyon ENISE and Télécom Saint-Étienne

Thanks to a partnership with the 3 engineering schools Mines Saint-Etienne (fr), Centrale Lyon ENISE (fr) and Telecom Saint-Etienne (fr), students from these schools can study for the Master and receive a double degree. The program brings together students from engineering, economics and management studies.

Who is it for?

This program is aimed at students who have completed the first year of the Master of Data Science and Innovation Management at SE² or the first year of a Master’s degree in economics, management or public administration, or who hold a degree from an engineering or business school, or a technical degree (documentalist) of a level equivalent to four years of higher education.

Students from the engineering schools Mines Saint-Étienne and Télécom Saint-Étienne can join the Master Data Science and Management of Innovation as the result of agreements signed between the two schools.

Foreign students who come under the Campus France procedure should apply via the Study in France website.
They need to demonstrate an adequate command of French: DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française), corresponding to CEFR level B2, or DALF (Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française) level C1 or C2.

Teaching method

Mix of lectures and projects.

Conferences and seminars given by external speakers (administrators, company executives, consultants, etc.) are a regular feature of the program.

Possibility to enroll in a block release course (estimated opening in September 2026) and also available in lifelong learning.

The program

MASTER 1 DATA SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT COURSE
TERM 7
UE 7-1: Core Courses

• Economic policy
• Industrial organization & competition law
• International economics
• Econometrics 3: discrete choice models

UE 7-2: Specialization Courses

• Evaluation of public policies
• Economics of innovation 1
• Environmental economics 1
• Economics for competition law
• Monitoring approach
  

UE 7-3: Methods and Tools for Economics

• Data analysis
• Graph theory and applications
• Time series and big data
• Prerequisite - Econometrics  (optional)
• Prerequisite - Game theory (optional)

UE 7-4: Professionalization

• Trade negociation
• Business English
• Foreign language 2 (optional)
  

TERM 8
UE 8-1: Core Courses

• Geographic economy
• Economics of innovation 2
• Econometrics 4: program evaluation

UE 8-2 : Specialization Courses

• Territorial economic intelligence
• Information systems
• Business Intelligence
• Geographic Information Systems

UE 8-3 : Methods and Tools for Economics

• Project management
• Data monitoring and analysis project
  
  

UE 8-4: Professionalization

• Internship (3 months minimum)
• Masterclass
• Professional Integration - Preparation of the Professional Project
• Business English

MASTER 2 DATA SCIENCE AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT COURSE
TERM 9
UE 9-1: Strategic exploitation of information

• Economic intelligence approach
• Economic intelligence applied to innovation
• Research technique
• Scientific and technical monitoring
• Strategy & prospective
• Information law

UE 9-2 : Mastery of innovative activities

• Economy of innovation
• Management of innovative projects
• Innovation management
• Financing innovation
• Innovation policies
• Innovation and industrial property law

UE 9-3 : Information engineering

• Computer networks and security
• Data mining
• Machine learning 1
• Machine learning 2: Deep learning
• Business intelligence
• Monitoring tools

UE 9-4: Professionalization

• English
• Masterclass
• Professional integration - Preparation of the Professional Project
• Project group

TERM 10
UE 10 : Professionalization

• Internship (4 months minimum), Master's thesis drafting, thesis defense
  

Internship

Workplace internship lasting between 3 to 5 months in Year 1 and 4 to 6 months in Year 2 during which you will be supervised by a professional tutor and an internship supervisor from the school. You will carry out a project related to the areas of the master and you will have to write and defend a dissertation.

Entry requirements / How to apply?

Admission is based on application and interview and subject to availability.

For more information, please refer to our "Admission" page.

Grants and scholarships

> Scholarships awarded on the basis of academic achievement
> Research grants for Master’s students intending to pursue a PhD
> Outbound mobility grants (double degree with Canada)
Students admitted into the program can spend the first year of the Data Science and Management of Innovation Master’s program at the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC) and may receive a grant for this purpose. For further information, contact the Head of International Relations. (richard.baron @ univ-st-etienne.fr)

More about grants and scholarships

Contacts

Program Director
Christine Largeron 
Head of the Master Data Science and Innovation Management

Registrar
Sandra Idir
sandra.idir@univ-st-etienne.fr (se2 @ univ-st-etienne.fr)
Phone. + 33 (0)4 77 42 13 85