Dr. Joel West (http://www.joelwest.org/) is an associate professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Department of Organization and Management (http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/dept/org&mgt/) in the College of Business (http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/) at San José State University.His research (http://www.joelwest.org/Research//) examines open source software, standards competition, technology entrepreneurship, and also included co-editing a book on open innovation (http://www.openinnovation.net/Book/NewParadigm/). His consulting (http://www.openitstrategies.com/) focuses on IP strategies and business models for software and Internet service companies. Since 2007, he has been the author of several blogs (http://www.joelwest.org/blogs) focusing on topics related to topics on technology strategy and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining SJSU, he was president and co-founder of Palomar Software and a columnist for MacWEEK. Visit Joel's site, JoelWest.org (http://www.joelwest.org/) Visit Joel's blog, Open IT Strategies (http://blog.openitstrategies.com/)