Master Management de l'innovation

The Master's in Innovation Management represents a real niche for Sorbonne University. Its originality lies in its scientific cross-disciplinary approach and the business management skills it offers. The cross-disciplinary aspect comes from the fact that it is open to all students with a scientific background. Managerial skills can be used either to reinforce disciplinary skills, or as a core skill (for new professions, for example) reinforced by disciplinary skills. With its focus on innovation management for scientists, the program sets itself apart from other institutions that are more oriented towards either management or general management.

The Master's degree in Innovation Management is a cross-disciplinary course in applied business management. The management course is designed for Sorbonne University students, but is open to anyone familiar with science and technology. It enables students to acquire managerial skills to reinforce their specialist skills and make them operational. Equipped with these dual skills, students can access a wide range of career opportunities within companies and/or embark on an entrepreneurial adventure.

The degree comprises an M1 and an M2. The M2 is also open to science students (chemistry, physics, engineering, health, etc.) with an M1 or M2 in the sciences, who would like to focus their career on innovation management and entrepreneurship in their chosen field.

M1 provides the foundations for entrepreneurship, project management and innovation.

In M2, students have a choice of three courses:

• Approaches and Technologies for Innovation in E-education (EdTech)
• Entrepreneurship and innovative projects in Science and Health: Science theme (EPI Sciences) in initial training or apprenticeship.
• Entrepreneuriat et projet innovant en Sciences et Santé (Entrepreneurship and Innovative Projects in Science and Health): Health theme, offered as an apprenticeship (EPI Santé).

Students are trained according to their chosen path to :

• design, instrument and manage innovative digital and technological devices in the field of science and e-education.
• know how to use the key tools for setting up and running a business in the sciences (health and new technologies).
• understand the different types of organizations in the sector: innovative structures, high-potential companies and large international groups.
• manage cross-functional projects and understand the needs of companies and organizations.
• develop their autonomy and project management skills.
• meet, understand and develop new uses for concrete applications in the fields of new technologies, education and health (depending on the path), to anchor the knowledge acquired in the Master's program.

This Master's program is open from M1 to L3 science students, and from M2 to students in initial or continuing training, wishing to obtain high-level training and dual skills (minimum requirement for M2: an M1 in science). Applicants must be highly motivated (see application procedure at bottom of page).

Access by Validation des Acquis et de l'Expérience is possible, subject to the opinion of the relevant juries. For further information, contact the Continuing Education Department.

The Master's program offers four different career paths to meet the needs of the professional world. The primary objective of this Master's program is to ensure the employability of Sorbonne University students, by capitalizing on their scientific skills and adding managerial competencies, with the aim of enabling them to work either in public or private organizations, or to set up their own structures.

Cross-disciplinarity and multi-disciplinarity are at the heart of employment policies, and the dual skills that students will acquire with this Master's degree are in line with current job market trends in the new technologies, science and health sectors...

Similarly, the Master's program, based on an innovative teaching approach and with a concrete view to mastering projects from the first year, will train students to be operational in the field.

The various job opportunities available to students in terms of functions and sectors :

In terms of functions: project manager, product manager, marketing or market access manager, research manager, communications manager, training manager, business developer, marketing/sales project manager, key account manager. The course leads to careers as project or product managers, business creators, intrapreneurs, with specializations such as :

• Research project manager, NTIC specialist, in a company or research laboratory,
• Responsible for developing innovative products or services in an organization or company,
• Department or Unit Manager in public or private organizations,
• Research, innovation and development project managers, specializing in ICTE, in companies or research laboratories in the student's discipline,
• Responsible for developing innovative products or services in an organization or company in the student's discipline,
• Department or Unit Manager in public or private organizations.

In terms of business sectors :

• Health: human and veterinary drug industries, biomedical equipment, in-vitro diagnostics, medical devices, dermo-cosmetics, health foods, communication agencies, consulting and contract research companies in the health sector...
• Science and new technologies: chemistry, biology, physics, sustainable development, nutrition, etc.
• E-learning

It is also possible to pursue a thesis afterwards.

Consult the results of the discipline's placement surveys.