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Mark Dodgson is one of the founding members of think, play, do, and a co-author of the book. In August 2006 he was listed as one of 25 future Australian business leaders in BRW magazine. He is Professor and Director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland Business School, and Visiting Professor at Imperial College.
In August 2007 Mark Dodgson was awarded the prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Eureka Prize for Leadership in Business Innovation. This is widely seen as Australia's most important science prizes, the Eureka Prizes were established in 1990 by the Australian Museum to reward excellence in the fields of research and innovation, science leadership, school science, and science journalism and communication
The focus of Mark's work over the past 25 years has been studying corporate strategies and government policies for technology and innovation. His primary focus has been on the evolution of national innovation systems, corporate innovation strategy, government, university and business relationships, and technological collaboration. He has also researched the internationalisation of R&D, innovation policies and strategies in Asia, and technology diffusion.
A core theme is the changing innovation process and the consequences of these changes for business and government. This research has been widely published in over 10 books, 60 refereed journal articles and numerous reports.
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and also of the Australian Institute of Management.
Mark previously 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.
Mark 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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