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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 |