Keck Graduate Institute
School of Applied Life Sciences
535 Watson Driver
Claremont, CA 91711-4817
E-mail: 
URL: http://www.JoelWest.org/KGI/
Keck Graduate Institute
School of Applied Life Sciences
535 Watson Driver
Claremont, CA 91711-4817
E-mail:
URL: http://www.JoelWest.org/KGI/
My research program focuses on the entrepreneurial opportunities in high-technology industries, and the institutions for cooperation and coordination that mediate such opportunities. Renewable energy is my current industry focus, while previous research emphasized the information and communications technologies sector.
Joel West and Marcel Bogers, “Leveraging External Sources of
Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation,” Journal
of Product Innovation Management, forthcoming.
(Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2195675)
Joel West, “Too Little, Too Early: California’s Transient Advantage in the Photovoltaic Solar Industry,” Journal of Technology Transfer, forthcoming.
Marcel Bogers and Joel West, “Managing Distributed Innovation: Strategic Utilization of Open and User Innovation,” Creativity and Innovation Management, 21, 1 (March 2012): 61–75. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2011.00622.x
Joel West and Michael Mace, “Browsing as the killer app: Explaining the rapid success of Apple’s iPhone,” Telecommunications Policy, 34, 5-6 (June-July 2010): 270-286. DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2009.12.002
Joel West, “Policy Challenges of Open, Cumulative, and User Innovation,” Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 30 (2009): 17-41.
Scott Gallagher and Joel West, “Reconceptualizing and expanding the positive feedback network effects model: A case study,” Journal of Engineering and Technology Management 26, 3 (Sept. 2009): 131-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.jengtecman.2009.06.007
Joel West, “Before Qualcomm: Linkabit and the Origins of the San Diego Telecom Industry,” Journal of San Diego History, 55, 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 1-20.
Rudi Bekkers and Joel West, “The Limits to IPR Standardization Policies as Evidenced by Strategic Patenting in UMTS,” Telecommunications Policy, 33, 1-2 (Feb.-March 2009): 80-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2008.11.003
Rudi Bekkers and Joel West, “Standards, Patents and Mobile Phones: Lessons from ETSI’s Handling of UMTS,” International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research, 7, 1 (January 2009), 13-34.
Joel West, “Commercializing Open Science: Deep Space Communications as the Lead Market for Shannon Theory, 1960-1973,” Journal of Management Studies, 45, 8 (December 2008), 1506-1532. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00807.x
Joel West and Siobhán O’Mahony, “The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities,” Industry & Innovation, 15, 2 (April 2008): 145-168. DOI: 10.1080/13662710801970142
Joel West and Karim R. Lakhani, “Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation,” Industry & Innovation, 15, 2 (April 2008): 223-231. DOI: 10.1080/13662710802033734
Joel West, “Seeking Open Infrastructure: Contrasting Open Standards, Open Source and Open Innovation,” First Monday, 12, 6 (June 2007).
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “Scope and Timing of Deployment: Moderators of Organizational Adoption of the Linux Server Platform,” International Journal of IT Standards Research 4, 2 (July 2006): 1-23. Reprinted in Kai Jakobs, ed. Standardization Research in Information Technology: New Perspectives, Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2008, pp. 122-141
Joel West and Scott Gallagher, “Challenges of Open Innovation: The Paradox of Firm Investment in Open Source Software,” R&D Management, 36, 3 (June 2006), 315-328. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2006.00436.x
Henk de Vries and Joel West, “Guest Editorial,” International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research, 4, 1 (Jan. 2006): iii-iv.
Joel West and John L. Graham, “A Linguistic-Based Measure of Cultural Distance and its Relationship to Managerial Values,” Management International Review, 44, 3 (2004): 239-260.
Joel West, “ How Open is Open Enough? Melding Proprietary and Open Source Platform Strategies, ” Research Policy 32, 7 (July 2003): 1259-1285. DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(03)00052-0
John L. King and Joel West, “ Ma Bell’s Orphan: US Cellular Telephony, 1947-1996, ” Telecommunications Policy 26, 3-4 (April/May 2002): 189-203. DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(02)00008-3
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “ Open Source Standardization: The Rise of Linux in the Network Era, ” Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 14, 2 (Summer 2001): 88-112.
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “Innovation and Control in Standards Architectures: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s PC-98,” Information Systems Research, 11, 2 (June 2000): 197-216. DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.2.197.11778
Joel West, “Utopianism and National Competitiveness in Technology Rhetoric: The Case of Japan’s Information Infrastructure,” The Information Society, 12, 3 (July 1996): 251-272.
Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick, Kuk-Hwan Jeong, John Leslie King, Thierry Vedel, Joel West and Poh-Kam Wong, “National Information Infrastructure: A Cross-country Comparison,” Information Infrastructure and Policy, 5, 2 (1996): 81-93.
Joel West, Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer, “Reconciling Vision and Reality in Japan’s NII Policy,” Information Infrastructure and Policy, 5, 1 (1996): 15-39. Reprinted in National Information Infrastructure: Comparison of Visions and Realities in France, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the United States, NCA V-RER-95133, Seoul: National Computerization Agency, 1996, pp. 40-71.
Joel West, “ Software Rights and Japan’s Shift to an Information Society, ” Asian Survey, 35, 12 (Dec. 1995): 1118-1139. DOI: 10.1525/as.1995.35.12.01p0078d Reprinted in Edward R. Beauchamp, ed., The Japanese Economy and Economic Issues since 1945, New York: Garland, 1998, pp. 274-296.
Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: New Research and Developments, Oxford: Oxford University Press, in progress.
Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-19-929072-5.(Reprinted in paperback, 2008. ISBN: 0-19-922646-6).
Joel West, Programming with Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop, New York: Bantam Computer Books, 1987, ISBN: 0-55334436-6.
Joel West and David Wood, “Evolving an Open Ecosystem: The Rise and Fall of the Symbian Platform,” in Ron Adner, Joanne Oxley and Brian Silverman, eds., Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 30, forthcoming.
Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Strategic Responses to Standardization: Embrace, Extend or Extinguish?” in Gino Cattani, Simone Ferriani, Lars Frederiksen, Florian Täube, eds., Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 28, 2011, pp. 263-285, ISBN: 1780521928.
Joel West, “Open Innovation,” in Barry Bayus, ed., Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, Volume 5: New Product Development, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell-Wiley, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/9781444316568.wiem05029
Jason Dedrick and Joel West, “Movement Ideology vs. User Pragmatism in the Organizational Adoption of Open Source Software,” in Kenneth L. Kraemer and Margaret Elliott, eds., Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing, Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2008, pp. 427-452. ISBN: 157387311X
Joel West, “The Economic Realities of Open Standards: Black, White and Many Shades of Gray,” in Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango, eds., Standards and Public Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 87-122.
Joel West, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Henry Chesbrough, “Open Innovation: A Research Agenda,” in Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 285-307.
Joel West and Scott Gallagher, “Patterns of Open Innovation in Open Source Software,” in Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 82-106.
Joel West, “Does Appropriability Enable or Retard Open Innovation?” in Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 109-133.
Caroline Simard and Joel West, “Knowledge networks and the geographic locus of innovation,” in Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, eds., Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 220-240.
Stephen K. Kwan and Joel West, “Heterogeneity of IT Importance: Implications for Enterprise IT Portfolio Management,” in Ravi Kumar Jain Bandamutha and K Rajesh Prahakar, IT and Business Strategy: An Interface, Hyderabad: IFCA Books, 2006, pp. 160-188.
Joel West, “The fall of a Silicon Valley icon: Was Apple really Betamax redux?” in Richard A. Bettis, ed., Strategy in Transition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 274-301.
Stephen K. Kwan and Joel West, “A Conceptual Model for Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software,” in Sherrie Bolin, ed., The Standards Edge: Open Season, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Sheridan Books, 2005, pp. 51-62.
Joel West, “Institutional Constraints in the Initial Deployment of Cellular Telephone Service on Three Continents,” in Kai Jakobs, ed., Information Technology Standards and Standardization: A Global Perspective, Philadelphia: Idea Group, 2000, pp. 198-221.
Joel West, Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer, “Back to the Future: Japan’s NII Plans,” in Brian Kahin and Ernest J. Wilson III, eds., National Information Infrastructure Initiatives: Vision and Policy Design, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997, pp. 61-111.
Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Four Perspectives on Architectural Strategy,” ICIS 2011 Proceedings, (Dec. 2011), Paper 21.
Paul L. Drnevich and Joel West, “Performance Implications of Technological Uncertainty for Young and Small Businesses,” Proceedings of the 2011 Southern Management Association Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (Nov. 2011): 818-823.
Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Architectural Dualities in Complex Systems: A Synthesis of Research on Technology and Organizations,” DRUID 2009 Summer Conference, Copenhagen (June 2009), WP #6032.
Rudi Bekkers and Joel West, “Managing Patents in Standardization: Lessons from ETSI’s Handling of UMTS,” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Calgary, (Oct. 2007): 151-170.
West, Joel, “Value Capture and Value Networks in Open Source Vendor Strategies,” Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawai‘i (Jan. 2007): 176. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2007.600
Joel West and Scott Gallagher, “Open Innovation: The Paradox of Firm Investment in Open Source Software,” Proceedings of the 46th Western Academy of Management conference, Las Vegas (April 2005).
Joel West and Siobhán O’Mahony, “Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects,” Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii (Jan. 2005): 196c. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2005.166
Henk J. de Vries and Joel West, “Introduction to the Minitrack on Standards and Standardization,” Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii (Jan. 2005): 202. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2005.353
Jason Dedrick and Joel West, “An Exploratory Study into Open Source Platform Adoption,” Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii (Jan. 2004): 80265b. DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2004.1265633
Joel West, “The Role of Standards in the Creation and Use of Information Systems,” in John L. King, and Kalle Lyytinen, eds., Proceedings of the Workshop on Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems, Seattle, Wash. (December 2003): 314-326.
Jason Dedrick and Joel West, “Why Firms Adopt Open Source Platforms: A Grounded Theory of Innovation and Standards Adoption,” in John L. King, and Kalle Lyytinen, eds., Proceedings of the Workshop on Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems, Seattle, Wash. (December 2003): 236-257.
Joel West, “Network Externalities vs. Switching Costs: Which Better Explains Buyer Decisions On Computer Standards?” PDMA Research Conference Proceedings 2001, Santa Clara, Calif. (Oct. 2001): 159-176.
Joel West, “Qualcomm’s Standards Strategy,” Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Boulder, Colorado (Oct. 2001): 62-76. DOI: 10.1109/SIIT.2001.968556
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “Proprietary vs. Open Standards in the Network Era: An Examination of the Linux Phenomenon,” Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii (Jan. 2001): 5011.
Joel West, “Reconsidering the Assumptions for ‘Tipping’ in Network Markets,” Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, Aachen, Germany (Sept. 1999): 163-168.
Joel West, “Organizational Decisions for I.T. Standards Adoption: Antecedents and Consequences,” Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, Aachen, Germany (Sept. 1999): 13-18.
Joel West and John L. Graham, “Language’s Consequences: A Test of Linguistic-Based Measures of Culture Using Hofstede’s Dimensions,” Proceedings of the Academy of Management 58th Annual Meeting, International Management Division, San Diego, Calif. (Aug. 1998).
Joel West, “Pioneer Advantage Under Increasing Returns to Scale: A Conceptual Framework for Information Technology Industries,” Proceedings of the American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference, Austin, Texas (Feb. 1998).
Joel West and Alasdar Mullarney, “ModSim: A Language for Distributed Simulation,” Proceedings of Distributed Simulation 1988, Society for Computer Simulation, 19, 3 (July 1988): 155-159.
Joel West and Justin Tan, “Qualcomm in China (A),” Asian Case Research Journal, 6, 2 (Dec. 2002): 85-100, DOI: 10.1142/S0218927502000257. Also published by Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Case 9B01M073, February 2003.
Joel West and Justin Tan, “Qualcomm in China (B),” Asian Case Research Journal, 6, 2 (Dec. 2002): 101-128, DOI: 10.1142/S0218927502000269. Also published by Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Case 9B01M074, February 2003.
Joel West, “Digital Music: Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley,” and “Live365: Sustaining the Internet Radio Revolution,” unpublished cases, San José State University, College of Business, October 2002.
Joel West, “Qualcomm 2000: CDMA Technologies,” European Case Clearinghouse, Case 302-069-1, May 2002.
Joel West, “Qualcomm 2001: 3G Strategies,” European Case Clearinghouse, Case 302-070-1, May 2002. Reprinted in Sherrie Bolin, ed., The Standards Edge, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Sheridan Books, 2002, pp. 497-513.
Joel West, “Qualcomm 2002: Update,” European Case Clearinghouse, Case 302-069-9, May 2002.
West, Joel, “Market, Policy and Environmental Influences on the Creation and Adoption of Solar Power in California, 1900-2010,” November 3, 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2010114.
West, Joel and Marcel Bogers, “Profiting from External Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation,” September 13, 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1949520.
Bogers, Marcel and Joel West “Contrasting Innovation Creation and Commercialization within Open, User and Cumulative Innovation,” July 13, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1751025.
Joel West and Caroline Simard, “Balancing Intrapreneurial Innovation vs. Entrepreneurial Spinoffs During Periods of Technological Ferment,” Sloan Industry Studies working paper series, WP-2007-32, May 2007.
Joel West and Siobhán O’Mahony, “The VistA Open Source Project,” December 31, 2003.
Joel West, “Apple Computer: The iCEO Seizes the Internet,” Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), UC Irvine, Working Paper #348, October 2002.
Joel West, “Cross-cultural Differences in Entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific PC Industry,” UC Irvine, working paper, January 1997.
Joel West, “Moderators of the Diffusion of Technological Innovation: Growth of the Japanese PC Industry,” Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), UC Irvine, Working Paper #PAC-096, January 1996.
Joel West, “Building Japan’s Information Superhighway,” Japan Policy Research Institute, Working Paper No. 7, February 1995.
Joel West, Object-Oriented Distributed Simulation, JPL Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., 1985 (part of the JPL Time Warp research project).
Joel West, “The Power of Mobility: How Your Business Can Compete and Win in the Next Technology Revolution,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 26, 1 (January 2009): 114. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5885.2009.00338_4.x
Joel West, “Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution,” Academy of Management Perspectives, 21, 1 (Feb. 2007): 91-92.
Joel West, “Understanding Open Source Licensing: Three How-to Guides,” IEEE Software 22, 4 (July/August 2005): 114-116. DOI: 10.1109/MS.2005.89
Joel West, “Winners, Losers & Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 50, 1 (Feb. 2003).
Joel West, “Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 16, 5 (Sept. 1999): 504-505.
Joel West, “Waves of Power: The Dynamics of Global Technology Leadership, 1964-2010,” Academy of Management TIM Newsletter, 10, 1 (Fall 1997): 5.
Joel West, “The International Computer Software Industry: A Comparative Study of Industry Evolution and Structure,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 14, 2 (March 1997): 152-154. DOI: 10.1016/S0737-6782(97)83960-4
Joel West, “Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology-Management Practices,” Journal of Product Innovation Management, 13, 4 (July 1996): 381-382.
Web log author for Open Innovation, Bio Business, Cleantech Business, Engineering Entrepreneurship and Open IT Strategies blogs, 2007-present; syndicated by Seeking Alpha, 2008-present
“Open Innovation’s Challenge: Letting Go Is Hard To Do,” BusinessWeek.com, April 1, 2010.
“World Report” columnist, Koryû, CSK Corporation, Tokyo, 1999-2001.
“Xanadu Comes to Japan,” Computing Japan, 3, 8 (Sep. 1996), 26-27.
“Where’s the On Ramp? Puzzling over Japan’s Information Future,” Tokyo Business Today, 63, 9 (Aug. 1995), 42-44.
“Christmas is still just a little bit subversive in Japan,” San Diego Union-Tribune, (Dec. 23, 1994).
Technology columnist, MacWEEK, 1988-1990. Also numerous articles in Byte, MacTutor and MacUser, 1986-1989.
All presentations by Joel West unless indicated by *
Joel West and Ujval Kondragunta, “Open Source Communities: Challenges of Moving from Software to Biology,” 10th International Open and User Innovation Workshop, Boston, August 1, 2012.
*Jonathan Sims and Joel West, “How Innovative are Innovation Communities and When Do Firms Care?” 10th International Open and User Innovation Workshop, Boston, July 31, 2012.
*Marcel Bogers and Joel West, “Innovation Beyond the Firm: Integrating Distributed Perspectives on Innovation Creation and Commercialization,” Open Innovation: New Insights and Evidence Conference, Imperial College London, June 26, 2012.
*Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Four Perspectives on Architectural Strategy,” Annual International Conference on Information Systems 2011, Shanghai, December 6, 2011.
*Paul L. Drnevich and Joel West, “Performance Implications of Technological Uncertainty for Young and Small Businesses,” Southern Management Association 2011 Meeting, Savannah, Georgia, November 11, 2011
Joel West, “Market, Policy and Environmental Influences on the Creation and Adoption of Solar Power in California,” Technology Transfer Society conference, Augsburg, Germany, September 29, 2011.
Joel West and Steven Casper, “Academic Commercialization and Regional Cluster Formation: Comparing San Diego's Wireless Telecommunications and Biotechnology Industries,” Technology Transfer Society conference, Augsburg, Germany, September 28, 2011.
Joel West, “Strategic Openness: The selective use of open strategies for competitive advantage,” Academy of Management conference, San Antonio, August 15, 2011.
*Erik Hansen, Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Joel West and Xiaohong Quan, “Green vs. Jobs: Goal Conflict Inherence in the Solar Policies of California, China and Germany,” Academy of Management conference, San Antonio, August 15, 2011.
Joel West and Marcel Bogers, “Profiting from External Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation,” 9th International Open and User Innovation Workshop, Vienna, Austria, July 6, 2011.
Joel West and Marcel Bogers, “Profiting from External Innovation,” Industry Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, June 2, 2011.
Joel West, Xiaohong Quan, Florian Lüdeke-Freund and Erik Hansen, “Alignment or conflict? A comparison of photovoltaic policy goals in Germany, California, and China,” Industry Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, June 2, 2011.
Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Architectural Dualities in Software Architecture: Components, Interfaces, Technologies and Organizations,” Industry Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, June 1, 2011.
Joel West and Paul Drnevich, “The Effects of Environmental Uncertainty on Young and Small Businesses,” Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Recovery conference, sponsored by Kauffman Foundation and the Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta, Oct. 27, 2010.
Joel West and Marcel Bogers, “Contrasting Innovation Creation and Commercialization within Open, User and Cumulative Innovation,” Academy of Management conference, Technology and Innovation Management division, Montréal, August 10, 2010.
*Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Architectural Innovation for Digital Platforms: Technological and Organizational Perspectives,” Academy of Management conference, Technology and Innovation Management division, Montreal, August 10, 2010.
Joel West and David Wood, “Open to Complementors: Tradeoffs of Ecosystem Management in the Symbian Mobile Phone Platform,” 1st Tilburg Conference on Innovation, Tilburg, Netherlands, June 2010.
*Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Strategic Responses to Standardization: Embrace, Extend or Extinguish?” paper symposium, Technology and Innovation Management and Business Policy and Strategy divisions, Academy of Management conference, Chicago, August 2009.
*Fabian Eggers, Joel West and Joe Giglierano, “Organizational Antecedents of Startup Growth Trajectories,” Academy of Management conference, Entrepreneurship division, Chicago, August 2009.
*Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Architectural Dualities in Complex Systems: A Synthesis of Research on Technology and Organizations,” DRUID 2009 Summer Conference, Copenhagen, June 2009.
Joel West and Marcel Bogers, “User, Open and Cumulative Innovation,” Open and User Innovation Workshop (OUI 2009), Hamburg University of Technology, June 4, 2009.
*David Mease, Robert Vitale and Joel West, “Identifying Comparable Peer Schools for AACSB Accreditation,” Western Decision Sciences Institute 38th Annual Meeting, Lihue, Hawai‘i, April 10, 2009.
Jason Woodard and Joel West, “Architecture and Control in Digital Innovation Networks,” Digital Challenges in Innovation Research workshop, NSF Organizational Innovation and Change, Temple University, Sept. 27, 2008.
Joel West and David Wood, “Managing Open Innovation Networks: Lessons from Mobile Phones,” 6th HBS-MIT User and Open Innovation Workshop, Harvard Business School, August 5, 2008.
*Rudi Bekkers and Joel West, “IPR Standardization Policies and Strategic Patenting in UMTS,” DRUID 2008 Summer Conference, Copenhagen, June 2008
Joel West, “Commercializing Open Science: Deep Space Communications as the Lead Market for Shannon Theory, 1960-1973,” 2007 Technology Transfer Society Conference, Palm Desert, Calif., Oct. 25, 2007.
Joel West and Caroline Simard, “Tapping the Knowledge of Remote Universities: Technological Entrepreneurship in the San Diego Telecom Industry,” 2007 Technology Transfer Society Conference, Palm Desert, Calif., Oct. 25, 2007.
Rudi Bekkers and Joel West, “Managing Patents in Standardization: Lessons from ETSI’s Handling of UMTS,” 5th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Calgary, Oct. 19, 2007.
*Joe Giglierano and Joel West, “Contrasting Marketing and Growth Strategies of Bootstrap and Ventured-Funded Startups,” UIC Research Symposium on Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Washington, DC, August 1, 2007.
Joel West and Michael Mace, “Entering a Mature Industry Through Innovation: Apple’s iPhone Strategy,” DRUID 2007 Summer Conference, June 2007.
Michael Mace and Joel West, “Impact of the Apple iPhone on the Mobile Phone Industry,” LA Global Mobility Roundtable, June 2007.
Joel West and Siobhán O’Mahony, “Sponsored Open Source Communities: a Vehicle for Open Innovation?” European Academy of Management 2007 conference, May 2007.
Joel West, “Value Capture and Value Networks in Open Source Vendor Strategies,” 40th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 2007.
*Scott Gallagher and Joel West, “The Knowledge Based View and Open Innovation: Strategies from Open Source Software,” Academy of Management conference, Technology and Innovation Management division, Atlanta, August 2006.
Joel West and Caroline Simard, “Balancing Intrapreneurial Innovation vs. Entrepreneurial Spin-Offs During Periods of Technological Ferment,” Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 2006.
*Rudi Bekkers and Joel West, “The Effect of Strategic Patenting on Cumulative Innovation in UMTS Standardization,” DIME Workshop on Rules, Norms and Standards in the Institutional IPR Environment, London, March 23, 2006.
Siobhán O’Mahony and Joel West, “What makes a project open source? Migrating from organic to synthetic communities,” Academy of Management conference, Technology and Innovation Management division, Honolulu, August 2005.
Joel West and Scott Gallagher, “Open Innovation: The Paradox of Firm Investment in Open Source Software,” Western Academy of Management, Las Vegas, April 1, 2005.
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “The Effect of Computerization Movements Upon Organizational Adoption of Open Source,” Social Informatics Workshop: Extending the Contributions of Professor Rob Kling to the Analysis of Computerization Movements, March 11, 2005.
Joel West and Siobhán O’Mahony, “Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects,” 38th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii, January 2005.
Joel West, “Information Systems Standards, Users and Organizations,” Academy of Management conference, Organizational Communication and Information Systems division, New Orleans, La., August 2004.
Stephen K. Kwan and Joel West, “Heterogeneity of IT Importance: Implications for Enterprise IT Portfolio Management,” Academy of Management conference, Organizational Communication and Information Systems division, New Orleans, La., August 2004.
Joel West, “What are Open Standards? Implications for Adoption, Competition and Policy” Standards and Public Policy conference, Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, May 13, 2004.
*Jason Dedrick and Joel West, “An Exploratory Study into Open Source Platform Adoption,” 37th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Waikoloa, Hawaii, Jan. 7, 2004.
Joel West, “The Role of Standards in the Creation and Use of Information Systems,” Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems workshop, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 13, 2003.
Jason Dedrick and Joel West, “An Exploratory Study into Open Source Platform Adoption,” Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems workshop, Seattle, Wash., Dec. 13, 2003.
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “Innovation and Industry Structure: The Effect of Open Source Software,” Strategic Management Society, 23rd Annual International Conference, November 2003.
Joel West and Caroline Simard, “Knowledge Flows in New Firm Creation: Insights from San Diego’s Wireless Cluster,” Strategic Management Society, Knowledge & Innovation Interest Group pre-conference, November 2003.
Jason Dedrick and Joel West, “Adoption of Open Source Platforms: An Exploratory Study,” HBS - MIT Sloan Free/Open Source Software Conference: New Models of Software Development, Cambridge, Mass., June 20, 2003.
Caroline Simard and Joel West, “The Role of Founder Ties in the Formation of San Diego’s ‘Wireless Valley’,” DRUID Summer Conference on Creating, Sharing and Transferring Knowledge, June 14, 2003.
Joel West, “Digital Music: Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley,” Western Casewriters Association, Palm Springs, Calif., April 10, 2003.
Joel West, “Should We Care About Standards?” Nature and Future of ICT Standardization conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., December 12, 2002.
Joel West, “The Use of Open Source Adoption Networks in Proprietary Platform Strategies,” Academy of Management conference, Technology & Innovation Management division, Washington, D.C., August 12, 2002.
Joel West, “The fall of a Silicon Valley icon: Was Apple really Betamax redux?” Strategic Management Society 21st Annual International Conference, San Francisco, October 22, 2001.
Joel West, “Network externalities vs. switching costs: Which better explains buyer decisions on computer standards?” 2001 PDMA International Research Conference, Santa Clara, Calif., October 13, 2001.
Joel West, “Qualcomm’s Standards Strategy,” 2nd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, Boulder, Colorado, October 4, 2001.
Joel West and Vladislav Fomin, “National Innovation Systems in the Mobile Telephone Industry, 1946-2000,” Academy of Management conference, Technology & Innovation Management division, Washington, D.C., August 7, 2001.
Joel West, “Qualcomm’s CDMA (B): China Market Entry” as part of the All-Academy session “Effective Teaching with Cases that Show How Governments Matter,” Academy of Management conference, Washington, D.C., August 5, 2001.
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “Proprietary vs. Open Standards in the Network Era: An Examination of the Linux Phenomenon,” 34th Annual Hawai‘i International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, January 5, 2001.
Joel West and Vladislav Fomin, “Standards Divergence and the Locus of Innovation in the Cellular Industry,” The Evolution of Standards and Standardization Practices, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, March 24, 2000.
*John L. King and Joel West, “Ma Bell’s Orphan: What Happened to U.S. Cellphone Service?” The Evolution of Standards and Standardization Practices, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, March 24, 2000.
Joel West, “Reconsidering the Assumptions for ‘Tipping’ in Network Markets,” 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, Aachen, Germany, Sept. 1999.
Joel West, “Organizational Decisions for I.T. Standards Adoption: Antecedents and Consequences,” 1st IEEE Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology, Aachen, Germany, Sept. 1999.
Joel West and John L. Graham, “Language’s Consequences: A Test of Linguistic-Based Measures of Culture Using Hofstede’s Dimensions,” Academy of Management 58th Annual Meeting, International Management Division, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 1998.
Joel West, “Pioneer Advantage Under Increasing Returns to Scale: A Conceptual Framework for Information Technology Industries,” American Marketing Association Winter Educators’ Conference, Austin, Texas, Feb. 1998.
Joel West and Jason Dedrick, “Competing Through Standards: DOS/V and Japan’s PC Market,” Strategic Management Society 16th International Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 1996.
Joel West, Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer, “Back to the Future: Japan’s NII Plans,” National and International Initiatives in Information Infrastructure conference, Harvard University, Jan. 1996.
Joel West, “Building the Information Superhighway: Japan’s Reaction to U.S.,” Association of Japanese Business Studies annual meeting, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1995.
Joel West and Xiaohong Quan (organizers), “Saving the Planet from East and West: Public and Private Efforts to Deploy Renewable Energy,” joint symposium, Technology and Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Organizations and Natural Environment divisions, Academy of Management conference, San Antonio, August 2011.
Joel West and Natalia Levina (organizers), “Harnessing external innovation sources: open innovation and crowdsourcing,” Industry Studies Association conference, Pittsburgh, June 2011.
Holger Schiele, Frank Piller, Stephan M. Wagner and Joel West, “Open innovation with suppliers: research perspectives and strategic practices,” Academy of Management conference, professional development workshop, Montréal, August 7, 2010.
Chris Kelty, Walt Scacchi, Charles Schweik and Joel West, “Social, Behavior, and Economic Studies of FOSS,” FOSS 2010 Workshop on the Future of Research in Free/Open Source Software, Irvine, Calif., February 10, 2010.
Joel West, Kory Brown (organizers), Gina Dokko, Jason Woodard, Tim Simcoe, Shane Greenstein, Lori Rosenkopf, “Keeping, Bending, or Changing the Rules: Interfirm Interaction in Standardization,” joint symposium, Technology and Innovation Management and Business Policy and Strategydivisions, Academy of Management conference, Chicago, August 2009.
Marcel Bogers, Allan N. Afuah, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Frank T. Piller, Christopher L. Tucci, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Joel West, “User Innovation and Firm Boundaries: Organizing for Innovation by Users,” joint symposium, Technology and Innovation Management, Business Policy and Strategy and Organization & Management Theory divisions, Academy of Management conference, Anaheim, Calif., August 11, 2008.
Kory Brown, James Glib, John Santhoff, Tim Simcoe, and Joel West, “Finding Innovation and Competitive Advantage in Standard Setting Alliances,” professional development workshop, Technology and Innovation Management, Business Policy and Strategy divisions, Academy of Management conference, Anaheim, Calif., August 10, 2008.
Joel West, “Universities, Industry and Open Innovation,” Sixth Meeting of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, Irvine, Calif., July 1, 2008.
Annabelle Gawer (organizer), Carliss Baldwin, Pieter Ballon, Robert Berry, Simon Brown, Jose Collazo, Michael Cusumano, Michael Jacobides, Alberto Spinelli, Joel West, “Platform Business Models,” panel discussion, Platforms, Markets and Innovation Conference, 2 June 2008, Imperial College London.
Kory Brown, Tim Dry, Zachary Smith and Joel West, “Exploring the Inner Workings of Standard-Setting Coalitions,” Western Academy of Management conference, Oakland, Calif., March 28, 2008.
Joel West (moderator and presenter), Brian McKenzie, Norris Krueger, Helder Sebastiao, Bill Schulte and Mukesh Sud, “Nontraditional Academics: Doing Entrepreneurship Education Good by Doing Entrepreneurship Education Well,” professional development workshop, Entrepreneurship division, Academy of Management conference, Philadelphia, August 4, 2007.
Aija Leiponen, Jennifer Kuan, Karim R. Lakhani, Tim Simcoe, Lee Fleming and Joel West, “Open Source, Open Standards and Distributed Innovation: Private Motives and Public Goods,” joint symposium, Technology and Innovation Management, Business Policy and Strategy and Organization & Management Theory divisions, Academy of Management conference, Philadelphia, August 6, 2007.
Elliott Maxwell, Rishab Ghosh, Joel West, Andrew Wyckoff and J.C. Herz, “The Ecology and Design of ‘Open’,” Designing Cyberinfrastructure for Collaboration and Innovation: Emerging Frameworks and Strategies for Enabling and Controlling Knowledge, Washington, DC, January 29, 2007.
Joel West and Kevin Crowston (co-organizers), “Open Source Software,” professional development workshop, Technology and Innovation Management, Business Policy and Strategy and Organizational Communication and Information Systems divisions, Academy of Management conference, Atlanta, August 13, 2006.
Kevin Crowston, Siobhán O’Mahony, and Joel West, “What can Wikipedia learn from Open Source Software Development?” Wikimania 2006, Boston, August 5, 2006.
Eleanor Wynn, Cynthia Pickering, Kevin Karth, Julian Lombardi, John Miner, David Smith, Joel West, “Open source approaches to collaborative software,” The Fourth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5), January 27, 2006.
Joel West (organizer and discussant), Jens Frøslev Christensen, Kira Fabrizio, Keld Laursen, Wim Vanhaverbeke, “Open Innovation: Empirical Research on Locating and Incorporating External Innovations,” Academy of Management conference, All-Academy Symposium, Honolulu, August 9, 2005.
Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Joel West, Ashish Arora, Jens Frøslev Christensen, Kwanghui Lim, Markku Maula and Gina Colarelli O’Connor, “Managing Open Innovation: A Research Agenda,” professional development workshop, Business Policy and Strategy and Technology and Innovation Management divisions, Academy of Management conference, New Orleans, La., August 7, 2004.
Matthew Liao-Troth and Joel West, “Statistical Software and Freeware for Data Analysis in Management,” professional development workshop, Research Methods and Management Education Divisions, Academy of Management conference, Toronto, August 6, 2000.
John Leslie King, Juha Knuuttila, Kari Lang and Joel West, “The Techno-Institutional Development of Standards in the Evolution of Global Cellular Telephony,” panel discussion, 19th Annual International Conference on Information Systems, Helsinki, Dec. 14, 1998.
“Profiting from External Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation,” 2011 World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation, San Francisco, November 18, 2011.
“Strategic Openness: The selective use of open strategies for competitive advantage,” Open Source, Innovation, and New Organizational Forms conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 1, 2011.
“Distributed Perspectives on Innovation: Open Innovation, User Innovation and Beyond,” New Forms of Collaborative Production and Innovation workshop, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, May 5, 2010.
“Policy Challenges of Open, Cumulative and Open Innovation,” Open-Source and Proprietary Models of Innovation: Beyond Ideology conference, Washington University School of Law, April 4, 2008.
“Managing Open Innovation Through Online Communities,” Managing Open Innovation through Online Communities track, European Academy of Management 2007 conference, May 17, 2007.
“Open Source: What It Is and What It Is Not,” California State University Open Source Software: Days of Dialogue, Seaside, Calif., February 10, 2006.
“Open Innovation: Why and How,” Conference on “Open Innovation – Enterprise Transformation,” Center for Paper Business & Industry Studies Sloan Foundation Industry Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, September 19, 2005.
“Too Little, Too Early: California’s Transient Advantage in the Emergence of the Solar Industry, 1900-2010,” RWTH Aachen, June 28, 2012
Open Innovation Speaker Series, Center for Open Innovation, UC Berkeley,
“Green vs. Jobs: Goal Conflict Inherence in the Solar Policies of California, China and Germany,” Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, May 18, 2011; University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, June 28, 2011.
“Open to Complementors: Tradeoffs of ecosystem management in the Symbian mobile phone platform,” Stanford Social Science and Technology Seminar, March 30, 2011.
“Browsing as the killer app: The success of the iPhone,” Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law, Michigan State University, April 24, 2009.
“Web 2.0 business models: Did we learn anything from Web 1.0?” workshop on Disruptive Forces in the Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Marketplace, Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM), University of Southern California, July 31, 2008
“Remote Institutions as the Seed for a Technology Cluster: From MIT to Qualcomm,” Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, January 21, 2008
“Commercializing Open Science Deep Space Communications as the Lead Market for Shannon Theory, 1960-1973,” Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, January 18, 2008
“Explaining MIT’s Impact on Shannon Theory,” Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation, ETH Zürich, May 22, 2007
“Balancing Intrapreneurial Innovation vs. Entrepreneurial Spinoffs: Learning from Linkabit,” College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, May 21, 2007
“Entering a Mature Industry Through Innovation: Apple’s iPhone Strategy,” Boston University, Information Systems Department, April 25, 2007; UC Irvine, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), May 2, 2007.
“MIT’s Golden Age of Information Theory, 1950-1965,” MIT Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, April 24, 2007.
“Coding Theory in Space,” NASA Ames Research Center, December 16, 2006.
“Making Money from ‘Free’ Software: The Role of Complementary Assets in Open Source Business Models,” Policy Area, UCLA Anderson School, May 12, 2006.
“The Role of Founder Ties in the Formation of San Diego’s ‘Wireless Valley’,” NorCOM Association, June 16, 2003.
“Development of Cellular Telephone Systems in the U.S., Europe and Japan,” Institute for Continued Learning, UCSD Department of Extended Studies (Sept. 26, 1997).
“Competing Through Standards: DOS/V and Japan’s PC Market,” Association of Japanese Business Studies annual conference, Washington, D.C. (June 13, 1997); New York University Stern School of Business (Apr. 4, 1997); Asian Technology Information Program, Tokyo (Feb. 28, 1997).
“Back to the Future: Japan’s NII Plans,” RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. (Aug. 8, 1996). “Building the Information Superhighway: Japan’s Reaction to the U.S.,” UCSD Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (Oct. 4, 1995).
College of Engineering, M.S.E. Final Project