Joel’s research on entrepreneurship looks a new firm formation to pursue opportunities created through technologicial innovation.

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Publications

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.

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

Simard, Caroline and Joel West (2006) “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, pp. 220-240.

Conference Presentations

All presentations by Joel West unless indicated by *

*Fabian Eggers, Joe Giglierano and Joel West, “Organizational Antecedents of Startup Growth Trajectories,” Academy of Management conference, Entrepreneurship division, Chicago, August 2009.

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.

*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 Caroline Simard, “Balancing Intrapreneurial Innovation vs. Entrepreneurial Spin-Offs During Periods of Technological Foment,” Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, June 2006.

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.

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.

Other Papers

Joel West, “Cross-cultural Differences in Entrepreneurship in the Asia-Pacific PC Industry,” UC Irvine, working paper, January 1997.

Last Updated May 26, 2009

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