We examine the geography of early stage entrepreneurial finance in the context of an internet marketplace for funding … limited reputations. At the same time, however, observers of the spatial effects of the internet and related technologies … report that many economic activities have become much less geographically dependent. At an aggregate level, the internet …

This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online … distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations. …

research including implications for firms’ revenue models from the increasing importance of the mobile Internet. Copyright …

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …

This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet … technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in … client/server networks had a higher likelihood of Internet adoption, however investments in proprietary or platform …

This Economic Letter summarizes research finding that the use of basic internet technology is widely dispersed among … both urban and rural locations. Moreover, although advanced internet technology was adopted most rapidly in large urban … areas, the research finds that much (but not all) of the apparent "digital divide" in internet use can be explained by the …