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.