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The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge

ISBN: 978-0-631-23331-2
Hardcover
216 pages
April 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry.
  • Presents the first accurate map of Internet domains in the world, bycountry, by region, by city, and for the US, by neighborhood.
  • Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of the Internetindustry.
  • Explains the geographic features of the high tech venture capital behind the Internet economy.
  • Demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create and use tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internet industry.
  • Draws on in-depth interviews and field work in San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.

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