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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This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial
Internet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internet
domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the
United States, 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.