Events
“Browsing as the killer app: Explaining the rapid success of Apple’s iPhone”
April 24, 2009, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | 191 Comm Arts & Sciences

Dr. Joel West of San Jose State University will give a talk entitled “Browsing as the killer app: Explaining the rapid success of Apple’s iPhone.”
Joel West (www.JoelWest.org) is associate professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the San José State University College of Business. His research interests include innovation strategies in the ICT sector, technical entrepreneurship and innovation policy. He is the co-editor of Open Innovation: Researching a New Paradigm (Oxford, 2006) and is currently working on a book on the San Diego telecommunications industry entitled From MIT to Qualcomm. He holds an S.B. from MIT and a Ph.D. from UC Irvine, and spent 20 years as a software industry engineer, manager and entrepreneur.
