Professor Mark Dodgson, Director, Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland
A member of the Australian Business Foundation's Research Advisory Committee, Professor Mark Dodgson is an internationally recognised scholar in the fields of corporate strategies and government policies for technology and innovation. His most recent accolade was in 2007, when he was awarded the Eureka Prize, Australia's most prestigious science awards, for leadership in Business Innovation.
In earlier times, Professor Dodgson worked as a Research Fellow at the Technical Change Centre, London (1983-85). He was Senior Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex (1985-93), and was Professor of Management at the Australian National University (1993-2002). He was co-Founder of the National Graduate School of Management at the ANU and was its Executive Director from 1995-97 and 1999-2001.
Professor Dodgson has lectured widely throughout Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and Latin America and has been an invited participant at international conferences in over 35 countries. He has been an advisor and consultant to many European Commission programs and to numerous UK, US, Australian and Asian government departments and agencies.
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Systems thinking, market failure and the development of innovation policy: The case for Australia (Report)
Wed Feb 17 2010This latest piece of scholarship from Professor Mark Dodgson, Professor Alan Hughes, Professor John Foster and Professor Stan Metcalfe, all of whom are close associates of the Foundation, argues the case for alternative approaches to innovation policy in Australia.
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Australian Innovation in Manufacturing: Results from an international survey (Research)
Aug 2006Professor Mark Dodgson and Dr Peter Innes of the University of Queensland Business School conducted an international comparison survey to guage the nature of innovation in small and medium sized manufacturing firms. This paper presents the Australian experience compared to the European findings. Although the survey found that some Australian firms adopted innovation practices for process improvement and cost reduction, overall there was a less strategic approach to innovation for longer term competitive advantage demonstrated by the Australian firms than by their European counterparts. Australian manufacturing firms risk being unable to compete with international competitors who have transformed their businesses to take advantage of market opportunities. -
Innovation Carriers - new faces of competition (Presentation)
Tue May 09 2006 -
Notes from Generating the Next Wave of Economic and Productivity Growth (Presentation)
Wed Nov 24 2004