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About Joel West |
Dr. Joel West is Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Department of Organization and Management in the College of Business at San José State University. His research, teaching, and industry experience center on the sort of global high-technology industries that have been the lifeblood of Silicon Valley for the past 40 years.
His research focuses on the effect of technological change on industry structure over time. Four major areas of interest are
His research has been published in Asian Survey, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, R&D Management, Research Policy, Telecommunications Policy and The Information Society, among other journals. He has won best paper awards for tracks of the Academy of Management and HICSS conferences, and has been active in service to the research community. He is the editor (with Henry Chesbrough and Wim Vanhaverbeke) of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, recently published by Oxford University Press.
He joined SJSU in August 2002, where his teaching focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship. He has taught graduate courses in technology strategy at San José State (Business 281) and earlier at U.C. Irvine. As part of developing this course, he wrote new cases on standards competition and intellectual property rights, which have been published and adopted at “top 25” business schools.
At SJSU, he also teaches the capstone undergraduate strategic management class (Business 189), business plans (Business 182) and the business simulation class (Business 294). Before SJSU, he taught entrepreneurship, technology strategy, strategy, international business and management information systems.
At SJSU, Dr. West is a board member of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and is among faculty judges for the Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition.. He was previously co-founder of the Silicon Valley Open Source Research Project. He earned a Ph.D. in management from the University of California, Irvine.
Today, he continues to consult with software companies to help them develop their strategies and business models, and writes about contemporary issues facing Silicon Valley companies in his weblogs.
Prior to receiving his Ph.D., Dr. West had more than 20 years’ experience as an engineer, manager and entrepreneur in the computer industry. He has also worked as a reporter, photographer, author and consultant. He received his S.B. degree from M.I.T. His hobbies include water sports, photography and music. He lives in San José with his wife and daughter.