Although innovation has long been recognised as a key factor in a company’s success, it is still important to understand it in its entirety and to learn how to manage it, in order to make it a real driver of business performance.
The aim of this Master’s programme is to provide a transversal and global vision of the innovation process within an organisation. If a more strategic vision is adopted, it will enable the multiple facets involved in the innovation process to be taken into account, such as creativity, the financing of innovative projects, project management, marketing adapted to innovation, etc. The aim is to train future managers to oversee innovative projects, with a clear and strategic vision of what innovation is, while enabling them to interact with the various functions within the company:
PACE OF TRAINING
The Master 2 in Global Innovation Management, which is available as an initial or continuing training course,takes 1 year to acquire the skills in innovation management that companies are looking for.
This is a two-semester, 360-hour modular course comprising 9 credit-bearing teaching units, leading to a MASTER degree.
4-6 month full-time placement from January to the end of September.
Professional dissertation defended in June or September.
START OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR: From early September
Innovation Management (6 ECTS)
Innovation and Marketing (6 ECTS)
Innovation Engineering (6 ECTS)
Creative Talent Management (6 ECTS)
Innovation and Change (6 ECTS)
Paradigms and Methodology of Innovation Research (6 ECTS)
Innovation in a Complex World (6 ECTS)
Professional Development (18 ECTS)
Employees, jobseekers, the self-employed
Continuing vocational training enables all employees, whatever their professional or personal situation, to update their skills and promote their professional development.
Whether you’re an employee, a jobseeker or self-employed, you can obtain a diploma, a short or long training course leading to a qualification, either face-to-face or by distance learning, on a sandwich course, or even take part in a validation of prior learning scheme…
The Master 2 in Global Innovation Management is available as part of a Continuing Education programme, a Validation of Prior Experience (VAE) programme or a Validation of Professional and Personal Experience (VAPP) programme.
Our Professional Integration and Career Development Department will help you with your plans to return to education by offering you personalised interviews, guiding you through our range of training courses and informing you about the funding available depending on your status.
Learn moreThe Master’s in Global Innovation Management gives access to positions of responsibility in the field of innovation.
Holders of this diploma can carry out supervisory and management functions within all types of organisation. There are many and varied career opportunities:
employment rate 18 months after graduation
have a permanent contract
of graduates feel that their job matches the specialism of their course
Surveys on the future and professional integration of graduates carried out by the Observatoire de la Vie Étudiante de l’Université de Lorraine.
Student exchange programmes (Erasmus +, bilateral programmes) enable students to gain international experience as part of their university studies. They also prepare qualified young people with an open mind and cross-cultural experience for a career in an increasingly international environment.
IAE NANCY has around forty agreements with foreign universities. Every year, around 30 IAE NANCY students spend an academic semester abroad.
The Master 2 MGI welcomes a wide range of profiles, both scientific and managerial, with at least a 4-year higher education qualification:
Eligibility is decided after examination of the application and an interview with a panel of judges (focusing mainly on the applicant’s career plans and motivations).
Employees, jobseekers, the self-employed
The Master 2 in Global Innovation Management is available as part of a Continuing Education programme, a Validation of Prior Experience (VAE) programme or a Validation of Professional and Personal Experience (VAPP) programme.
Learn moreFor Campus en France applicants, please consult this page: https: //www.campusfrance.org/fr/candidature-procedure-etudes-en-france
For European students undergoing initial training, registration fees for national diplomas are set annually by ministerial decree. In 2026, they will amount to :
There is also a Student and Campus Life Contribution of €105 in 2025/2026. This contribution must be paid by students not receiving a grant to cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr
