How do you build the next Silicon Valley? This paper offers an empirical examination of the factors that help foster internet firms and employment. It builds off literature examining factors related to the economic potential of places. We examine the internet industry using the identification...

This paper examines the evolution the internet sector's economic contribution and offers more insight into the nature of those contributions over the past several years. This kind of analysis has not been attempted before. In this section, the report provides a summary of key economic estimates...

How do you build the next Silicon Valley? This paper offers an empirical examination of the factors that help foster internet firms and employment. It builds off literature examining factors related to the economic potential of places. We examine the internet industry using the identification...

The internet has long since evolved into a rich and diverse ecosystem of new platforms, businesses, and resources that have fundamentally changed the way in which markets function. In many ways, it has been the great economic equalizer, enabling low-cost entry and exit to firms, instant...