This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the … Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over … Internet system -- 6. Internationalization and digital divide -- 7. Co-evolution : localization of the Internet system -- 8 …

developments; international entrepreneurship and the internet as a developing research agenda; contacts links and networks as …. International entrepreneurship and the Internet : a developing research agenda -- pt. 5. Contacts, links and networks : process …

European internet entrepreneurship. The effects of both the public promotion of venture capital investments as well as the …. The book contains a wealth of unique data on the failure of European internet ventures and draws several technology and …

Preface -- Introduction: The economics of the internet: an overview / Johannes M. Bauer and Michael Latzer -- Part II … Theoretical foundations -- 1. The industrial organization of the internet / Günter Knieps and Johannes M. Bauer -- 2. The internet … as a complex layered system / Stephen J. Schultze and Richard S. Whitt -- 3. A network science approach to the internet …

-- pt. 3. The network economy -- pt. 4. Sociability and social structure in the age of the Internet -- pt. 5. The Internet …

(including the internet) and mobile telecommunications (including the mobile internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach … equipment production and the provision of intangible service products such as internet access and content. By addressing the … subsystems * the dynamics and trends of the internet services industry * policy implications for the future of the …