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Joel West is affiliated with the Keck Graduate Institute in the United States and primarily works in the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with 39 publications in this domain. Their research spans several subfields, including Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Economics and Econometrics, Computer Science Applications, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • University-Industry-Government Innovation Models
  • Business Strategy and Innovation
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting

West has contributed to several recent papers, reflecting a focus on innovation ecosystems, technological performance, and digital-physical innovation intersections. These papers include:

  • "Evolving a Value Chain to an Open Innovation Ecosystem: Cognitive Engagement of Stakeholders in Customizing Medical Implants" (2020) published in California Management Review
  • "Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses" (2021) published in Journal of Small Business Management
  • "Interfaces, modularity and ecosystem emergence: How DARPA modularized the semiconductor ecosystem" (2023) published in Research Policy
  • "Where digital meets physical innovation: Reverse salients and the unrealized dreams of 3D printing" (2023) published in Journal of Product Innovation Management
  • "Managerial Innovation and Management of Open Innovation" (2020) published in Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

Joel West frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Henry Chesbrough, Agnieszka Radziwon, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Paul Olk, and Krithika Randhawa. Each of these collaborators has contributed to multiple publications with West.

West's work has been published in recurrent venues such as the Academy of Management Proceedings, SSRN Electronic Journal, California Management Review, Journal of Innovation Economics & Management, and Journal of Small Business Management.

In addition to articles, West has authored books, notably one published by Oxford University Press titled The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation (2024).

Best Publications

  • Open innovation : researching a new paradigm

    Henry Chesbrough;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Joel West

  • Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation

    Joel West;Marcel Bogers

  • Challenges of open innovation: the paradox of firm investment in open‐source software

    Joel West;Scott Gallagher

  • Open innovation: The next decade

    Joel West;Ammon Salter;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Henry W. Chesbrough;Henry W. Chesbrough

  • How open is open enough? Melding proprietary and open source platform strategies

    Joel West

  • New frontiers in open innovation

    Henry Chesbrough;Wim Vanhaverbeke;Joel West

  • Getting Clear About Communities in Open Innovation

    Joel West;Karim R. Lakhani

  • The Role of Participation Architecture in Growing Sponsored Open Source Communities

    Joel West;Siobhán O'mahony

  • Managing Distributed Innovation: Strategic Utilization of Open and User Innovation

    Marcel Bogers;Joel West

  • Browsing as the killer app: Explaining the rapid success of Apple's iPhone

    Joel West;Michael Mace

  • Open innovation: current status and research opportunities

    Joel West;Marcel Bogers

  • Open Innovation: A research agenda

    H. Chesbrough;Wim Vanhaverbeke;J. West

  • Patterns of Open Innovation in Open Source Software

    Joel West;Scott Gallagher

  • Surrendering control to gain advantage: Reconciling openness and the resource-based view of the firm

    Oliver Alexy;Joel West;Helge Klapper;Markus Reitzig

  • A Linguistic-Based Measure of Cultural Distance and Its Relationship to Managerial Values (1)

    Joel West;John L. Graham

  • Firms, Users, and Innovation

    Frank Piller;Joel West

  • Contrasting Community Building in Sponsored and Community Founded Open Source Projects

    J. West;S. O'Mahony

  • An exploratory study into open source platform adoption

    J. Dedrick;J. West

  • Open Innovation: A Research Agenda

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  • Surfing the New Wave of Open Innovation Research

    Wim Vanhaverbeke;Joel West;Henry Chesbrough

  • Standards and Public Policy: The economic realities of open standards: black, white, and many shades of gray

    Joel West

  • The limits to IPR standardization policies as evidenced by strategic patenting in UMTS

    Rudi Bekkers;Joel West

  • The complementarity of openness: How MakerBot leveraged Thingiverse in 3D printing

    Joel West;George Kuk

  • Leveraging External Sources of Innovation: A Review of Research on Open Innovation

    Joel West;Marcel Bogers;Marcel Bogers;Marcel Bogers

  • Standards and Public Policy

    Shane M. Greenstein;Victor Stango

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Wim Vanhaverbeke
Wim Vanhaverbeke University of Antwerp
Jason Dedrick
Jason Dedrick Syracuse University
Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough University of California, Berkeley
John Leslie King
John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenneth L. Kraemer
Kenneth L. Kraemer University of California, Irvine
Markus Perkmann
Markus Perkmann Imperial College London
Frank T. Piller
Frank T. Piller RWTH Aachen University
Christopher L. Tucci
Christopher L. Tucci Imperial College London
Karim R. Lakhani
Karim R. Lakhani Harvard University

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