The Geography of the Internet industry - second half

The second half of the book, actually starting from part of Chapter Four, is dominated by the "venture capital", so it is much more about economic geography than physical geography as Greg put it. After showing the correlation between the "clustering pattern of the Internet industry" and the involvment of venture capital investing using statistical method in Chapter 5, Zook goes on to analyze in Chapter 6 why venture capitalists play such an important rold in the geographic characteristic of the Internet industry. The heading of this chapter, "Finance and the brokering of knowledge", reminds me of knowledge management. Although this term KM is not really mentioned in this book, but the idea is everywhere, especially in Chapter 4 and 6.

I find one interesting thing: although the preface of the book is written by Castell and the author does cite Castell from time to time, this book does not give me the impression of "space of flow". Instead, it's a book about space of local over global, and space of concentration, which seems quite different from the flow that Castell talks about. Maybe I didn't really understand the idea of flow?