The Innovation and Society track trains students to analyze the development of innovations in specific social contexts (institutional, geographical, etc.) by using methodological and conceptual tools. The courses explore the complex interactions between actors, resources and learning processes, while putting into perspective the socio-economic and technological dimensions of innovation throughout history.

This track also addresses major contemporary challenges such as ecology, mobility, digital technologies and financial crises. It aims to develop critical thinking and collective action skills, enabling students to question the notion of innovation, its conditions of emergence and its impacts on past, present and future societies.

Open to anyone holding a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Humanities with a major in Social Sciences (equivalent to 60 ECTS).

Educational objectives

• Understand and interpret today’s major challenges
• Be both critical and constructive in order to propose alternatives to established ways of doing and thinking
• Set up, stimulate and participate in collaborative innovations in society (co-innovate in society)
• Contribute to the transition while developing and highlighting different points of view.

Career prospects reflect work within companies, associations or public administrations that need to develop or promote innovative collaborative projects involving different people or organizations to address concrete and current socio-economic, technological or environmental issues.