Researchers Network

Name
West
First Name
Joel
Research Institution
Dr. Joel West is Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Department of Organization and Management in the College of Business at San José State University. His research, teaching, consulting and industry experience center on the sort of global high-technology industries that have been the lifeblood of Silicon Valley for the past 40 years.

His research centers on openness in the strategies of high-technology firms, including those in computing, communications and clean technologies. His published research has included open standards, open source and open innovation. He is author of the OpenInnovation.net blog and co-editor of the book Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006).
Area of expertise
User innovation

Open Source Software
Students going for a doctors degree
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Contact
Joel.West@sjsu.edu
http://www.joelwest.org/
http://www.joelwest.org/Research
http://blog.openinnovation.net/
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Exnovate connects researchers who have top expertise in different subjects related to crowd-sourcing, open innovation, collaboration between innovation partners, and innovation networks. Exnovate offers them a platform to set up research projects that may fit in international research programs financed by the European Community or other international organizations. In addition, companies and governments can look for expertise among these academics to execute specific types of research projects about open innovation.

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Students going for a doctors degree

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