Open Innovation Experts
Last updated November 27, 2005

Joel West

Associate Professor, College of Business
Co-founder, Silicon Valley Open Source Research Project
San José State University

Dr. West has done research on technology adoption and production strategies, with a particular focus on the role of product compatibility standards.

He is interested in two different open innovation strategies used by proprietary I.T. companies: open source and open standards. He is studying both the open source strategies of proprietary I.T. firms, and the adoption of open source software by organizational MIS departments. For open standards, he is researching various dimensions of openness and their implications for coopetition among I.T. firms.

His latest book is Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006).

A former software entrepreneur, he has served as a consultant to entrepreneurial I.T. companies.