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The Geography of the Internet Industry

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

Matthew Zook

Science / Earth Sciences / Geography

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.
Matthew A. Zook is Visiting Research Fellow at the Public Policy Instititute of California and Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Kentucky.

Publication Date: 06 May 2005
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-13: 9780631233329
Format: Paperback / softback
Page Count: 224
Weight (oz): 11.52

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