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The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge (Information Age Series)

Author Matthew Zook
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
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Author(s)Matthew Zook
ISBN / ASIN0631233326
ISBN-139780631233329
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Sales Rank3,335,788
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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.