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The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge.

Publication: The Canadian Geographer
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge by Matthew A. Zook, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2005, xiii + 200 pp. paper US$36.95 (ISBN 0-631-23332-6)

The Geography of the Internet Industry distinguishes itself as an important contribution to the discipline by building on a strong foundation of economic geographical theories of tacit knowledge and regional development--particularly the work of AnnaLee Saxenien (1994) and Meric Gertler (2003)--as well as realigning the dot-com boom and bust alongside the behavior of venture capital firms. It is a short book that balances a popular writing style with sound theory and sophisticated statistical gymnastics, while maintaining an appropriately narrow scope.

Zook's book ends his analysis with two important stories. In Chapters 2 and 3, he describes the growth of the Internet from an experimental defense department's initiative involving a few select universities to a massive commercial endeavor encompassing almost every sector of the economy....

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