Joel West, Ph.D.

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• Professor at KGI — the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
  • Instructor for technology management and entrepreneurship electives
  • Area coordinator for the business focus track
• Blogger on technology strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship
• Researcher on innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Particular focus on entrepreneurship and strategic openness (open standards, open source, open innovation)
  • Co-editor of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006)
    • Co-founder of the Open Innovation Community and author of the open innovation research blog
  • Expert on telecommunications, computing and cleantech industries
  • Currently research projects
    • California’s emergent renewable energy industries
    • Qualcomm and the San Diego telecommunications industry
• Leader in innovation & entrepreneurship research community
• A volunteer in the Entrepreneurship and Technology & Innovation Management divisions of the Academy of Management
• Co-organizer of various Academy Professional Development Workshops and symposia
• Teacher of strategy, technological innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Professor Emeritus at San José State University, Department of Organization and Management
    • Instructor for entrepreneurship, high technology, and business strategy courses
    • Founder and director of the SJSU Solar Workforce Project
    • Co-founder of the Silicon Valley Open Source Research Project
  • Lecturer at UC Irvine, Pepperdine and Temple University Japan
• Author of teaching cases on Qualcomm, Live365 and Solar Energy
• Strategy consultant to IT companies in areas such as open source strategy and business model development
• 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 now 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 January 3, 2012

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