The geography of the Internet industry : venture capital, dot-coms, and local knowledge
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The geography of the Internet industry : venture capital, dot-coms, and local knowledge
(The information age series)
Blackwell Pub., 2005
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-191) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures. List of Tables.
List of Maps.
Series Editor's Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1 Uncovering the Geography of the Internet Industry.
2 Origins and Shape of the Internet.
3 Mapping the Internet Industry.
4 Economic Clusters, Knowledge Management and Venture Capital.
5 Connecting Venture Capital to the Geography of the Internet Industry.
6 Finance and the Brokering of Knowledge.
7 Foundation for the Dot-com Boom.
8 Panning for Digital Gold.
9 Dot-com Hangover?.
Bibliography.
Appendix A - Measuring The Internet Industry.
Appendix B - Interview Methodology and Geographic Definitions.
Notes.
References.
Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"