University of Queensland Professor Mark Dodgson has been awarded a prestigious international fellowship for showing how new technologies can help design innovative products and services.
Professor Dodgson, Director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre (TIMC), was granted the year-long International Fellowship with the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM).
AIM, based in the London Business School, was formed to develop research programs to increase productivity and innovation in British industry.
“The fellowship is an invaluable opportunity to participate in one of the world’s leading research networks in management,” Professor Dodgson said.
His research examines how world-leading companies such as Glaxo Smith Kline and Procter and Gamble, use virtual reality and computer simulations to solve business problems.
He has also shown how simulation technology has helped in the introduction of a traffic congestion toll in central London and arrested the lean on the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
As part of his AIM fellowship, Professor Dodgson will be paid to continue his research and speak on his knowledge at the UK’s top universities including Oxford and Cambridge, on a six-week- tour from this month.
The Taringa-based Professor will also help AIM build a research program on how governments can help encourage business innovation.
He said more companies were partnering with universities in new ways to find solutions to problems of productivity, efficiency and competitive advantage.
“Research outcomes can take business innovation to new heights, generating exciting new solutions for industry and organisational problems.”
For more information contact Professor Dodgson (phone: 07 3365 1615, email: m.dodgson@business.uq.edu.au) or contact Miguel Holland (phone: 3365 2619, email: m.holland@uq.edu.au)
