Matthew Zook

The Geography of the Internet Industry (eBook, PDF)

Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405141475
• Artikelnr.: 38281738

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"This book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literatureon the geography of the information society ... The parallels drawnto related booms and busts of earlier eras demonstrate that thenovelty of the 'new' economy is as mythical as the'end' of geography in the information age."Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota

"Traces the Internet industry from its beginnings ... thebest picture yet of the Internet boom of the 1990s, its decline in2000 and 2001, and its stability and slower growth since."Edward J. Malecki, The Ohio State University

"An authoritative and engaging account of contemporaryurban-regional economic development in the information age, thathas real explanatory power much like Jean Gottmann'sMegalopolis had in the 1960s. The Geography of theInternet Industry deserves a place on the reading lists ofanyone serious about understanding the recent past of theInternet." Martin Dodge, University CollegeLondon

"I urge everyone who has a chance to read this bookbecause it is fluent and well constructed, especially given that itis based on a thesis. Unlike most theses, the joins do not show,and this makes for an exciting journey through itspages."
Michael Batty
University College London