The technology dynamics of the digital age continue to impact where industries and firms locate and cluster geographically. This book provides a balanced view of the "New Economy" or "Digital Economy" perspective and through analyses illustrates where dynamics seem to be emerging and where more traditional patterns seem to be holding.

Cities in the telecommunications age.- Entrepreneurship, Clusters and Policy in the Emerging Digital Economy.- High tech industry productivity and hedonic price indices.- Information and Communication Technologies and the New Regional Economy.- Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Clustering in Space Versus Dispersing Over Space.- Regional Innovation Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Regions.- Relating Entrepreneurship to Economic Growth.- Industrial Cluster Analysis and Technology Policy Decisions in Functional Regions.- Location and Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industries.- Spatial Clusters of ICT Industries.- Local and Regional ICT Service Sector Markets in Sweden.- Growth Dynamics in a Municipal Market-Accessibility Hierarchy.- Telecommunication and Policy.- Cities in the Internet Age.- Regional Telecommunications Investment Impacts and Efficiency Considerations.- Investment and Household Adoption of Communication and Information Services.- The Swedish 3G Beauty Contest: A Beauty or a Beast?.- The Digital Divide: A Review of Socioeconomic and Spatial Distributional Issues in ICTs.- The Emerging Digital Economy: Conclusions.

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