UQ Business School academic elected to prestigious body

UQ Business School academic Professor Mark Dodgson has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).

Based in London, the RSA has a 250-year history of encouraging national debates about the arts, business, and society. Past members include Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Benjamin Franklin.

Professor Dodgson said he was particularly pleased at the news because the RSA was such an innovative organisation.

“I love the way the RSA encourages serious non-partisan debates about important issues like global citizenship, sustainability, and the encouragement of enterprise,” he said.

“The Society is inclusive, involving people from all walks of life, and is active in engaging as wide a range of people as possible in the debates.”

Professor Dodgson said the RSA was responsible for the "Coffee House Challenge" in Britain.

“Over the past 2 years, more than 2,500 RSA Fellows have been engaged in leading discussions on local and national issues in coffee shops all around the country, with awards for ideas that help improve society,” he said.

“I look forward to contributing to the RSA’s current discussion on developing an Intellectual Property Charter and to running a lecture series on innovation at the Society’s headquarters in early 2006.”

Professor Dodgson’s book on innovation Think, Play, Do: Innovation, Technology, and Organisation was released recently by Oxford University Press, and is already being reprinted because of the high demand from major technology companies.

Media: For more information contact, Professor Mark Dodgson, Director, Technology and Innovation Management Centre, University of Queensland Business School, telephone (07) 3365 1615, email m.dodgson@business.uq.edu.au or Cathy Stacey,
Marketing Development Manager, University of Queensland Business School, telephone (07) 3365 6179, mobile 0438 339 538, email c.stacey@business.uq.edu.au.