Professor Jason Scholz
Details
Department: Research & Innovation Capability
Campus: City Campus Australia
jason.scholz@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-3656-046X
About
Professor Jason Scholz is an Innovation Professor at RMIT University with a focus on advancing research, knowledge translation, and industry-engaged innovation. His work spans the intersection of science, technology, and applied research, with an emphasis on delivering practical impact through collaboration with partners across academia, government, and industry.
Jason is committed to fostering interdisciplinary approaches that address complex societal and technological challenges. He brings a strong track record in research leadership, capability building, and the development of innovative programs that accelerate the translation of ideas into real-world outcomes.
In his role at RMIT, Jason contributes to strengthening research culture, supporting collaboration, and driving initiatives that enhance the university’s impact locally and globally.
Research fields
- 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
- 4803 International and comparative law
- 5001 Applied ethics
- 4605 Data management and data science
- 4611 Machine learning
Research interests
Professor Jason Scholz’s research interests focus on innovation systems, the translation of research for change and maximising poitive impact, and the role of universities in enabling effective pathways between discovery and application. His work examines how interdisciplinary research can be structured and supported to address complex technological and societal challenges.
A central theme of his research is the value capture of research by industry, exploring how organisations recognise, absorb, and derive benefit from new knowledge and technologies. This includes a focus on the design of innovation frameworks that support collaboration across academia, industry, and government, and how these frameworks can be scaled within institutional and sectoral contexts.
Jason is also interested in narrative and journey-based models of innovation, examining how innovation unfolds over time and how storytelling, pathways, and lived experience shape successful translation. Complementing this, he develops and applies innovation decision aids - tools and frameworks that help researchers, leaders, and organisations navigate uncertainty, prioritise opportunities, and make informed choices in complex innovation environments.
