The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local KnowledgeISBN: 978-0-631-23332-9
Paperback
224 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.