The Geography of the Internet Industry (eBook)

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.

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.

"This book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature
on the geography of the information society ... The parallels drawn
to related booms and busts of earlier eras demonstrate that the
novelty 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 ... the
best picture yet of the Internet boom of the 1990s, its decline in
2000 and 2001, and its stability and slower growth since."
Edward J. Malecki, The Ohio State University

"An authoritative and engaging account of contemporary
urban-regional economic development in the information age, that
has real explanatory power much like Jean Gottmann's
Megalopolis had in the 1960s. The Geography of the
Internet Industry deserves a place on the reading lists of
anyone serious about understanding the recent past of the
Internet." Martin Dodge, University College
London

"I urge everyone who has a chance to read this book
because it is fluent and well constructed, especially given that it
is based on a thesis. Unlike most theses, the joins do not show,
and this makes for an exciting journey through its
pages."

Michael Batty

University College London