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Joel West’s Research
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Research Streams
Joel West’s research focuses on topics in innovation and
entrepreneurship, particularly topics related to the effect of
technological change on industry structure over time. Two major
areas of interest are:
- The creation of new industries and firms as the result
of radical technological innovation. He has studied the birth
and growth of the global mobile telephone industry from 1946 to
the present. As part of his research on entrepreneurship, he is
analyzing the birth and growth of more than 200 startup
companies in a wireless communications regional
economy.
- The selective use of openness
for competive advantage:
- Open Innovation. He worked with Henry
Chesbrough and Wim
Vanhaverbeke to produce a highly-cited
academic edited book on open
innovation, entitled Open
Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm, published in
2006 by Oxford University Press (and released in paperback
in 2008). The three together edited a second book, New Frontiers in Open
Innovation, that was published in 2014 by Oxford
University Press.
- The role of product compatibility standards in both
technology adoption and intra-industry competition. He has
presented and published a number of papers on proprietary
and open platforms, standards competition and software
ecosystems.
- The growth of open source
and free software. With various colleagues,
he has studied the adoption of open source, the use of open
source as a competitive strategy by major I.T. firms, and
the impact of open source as a competition for such firms.
He has numerous
papers on the topic since 2000, and shared his
insights from this research at industry conferences.
Specific Papers
Joel has been active in several theoretical domains
His research focuses on technology-based industries, including:
In a previous career, he also did work related to computer science.
Complete Publications
Some papers overlap multiple topics; for a complete curriculum
vitae with merged references, click
here.
Also see the index of publications compiled by ORCID, Google,
DBLP,
Repec, AIS
and the working papers on his SSRN author page
Last Updated
February 1, 2015
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