Zook The Geography of the Internet Industry

Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4147-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Information Age Series

This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercialInternet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internetdomains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for theUnited States, by neighborhood.
* * Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of theInternetindustry.
* Explains the geographic features of the high tech venturecapital behind the Internet economy.
* Demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create anduse tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internetindustry
* Draws on in-depth interviews and field work in San FranciscoBay Area and New York City.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zook, Matthew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 VentureCapital.
5 Connecting Venture Capital to the Geography of the InternetIndustry.
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 GeographicDefinitions.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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.