Joel West, Ph.D.

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• Blogger on technology strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship
• Researcher on technology and innovation strategies
  • Particular focus on standards competition, open source, open innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Expert on telecommunications, computing and software industries
  • Co-editor of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006)
    • Maintainer of OpenInnovation.net website and the open innovation research blog
  • Currently writing Digitizing Communications, which traces Shannon Theory from MIT through NASA and Linkabit to Qualcomm
• Leader in innovation & entrepreneurship research community
• Active in the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Management divisions of the Academy of Management
  • Co-organizer of various Academy Professional Development Workshops
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of International Journal of IT Standards & Standardisation Research
• Co-chair of the annual HICSS Minitrack on Standards and Standardization
• Associate Professor at San José State University, Department of Organization and Management
  • Instructor for high technology, entrepreneurship and business strategy courses
  • Steering committee member for Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and co-founder of the Silicon Valley Open Source Research Project
  • Author of teaching cases on Qualcomm and Live365
  • Formerly lecturer at UC Irvine, Pepperdine and Temple University Japan
• Strategy consultant to high-technology companies
  • Consultant on innovation strategies in areas such as open innovation, open source and open standards
  • Co-founder and former director of VistA Software Alliance
• Former president and co-founder of Palomar Software, Inc., a Macintosh software company
  • Author of Programming with Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop
  • Former columnist for MacTutor (now MacTech) and MacWEEK; speaker at MacWorld Expo
  • Founder of the MacStats website
• San Diego native
  • Graduate of Point Loma High, MIT and UC Irvine
  • Longtime resident of Oceanside
  • Former vice president of San Diego Software Industry Council
  • Science fair judge in San Diego (and later Santa Clara) counties
• Husband, father, son and brother

None of us are related to the former Calvin Klein underwear model of the same name, born in 1975 in Indianola, Iowa.

Last Updated June 27, 2008

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