How the Internet Became Commercial : : Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network / / Shane Greenstein.
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (488 p.) :; 28 b/w illus., 13 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Ubiquitous Clicks and How It All Started
- THE TRANSITION
- 2. The White House Did Not Call
- 3. Honest Policy Wonks
- 4. A Taste of Champaign
- 5. Unleashing Commercial Iconoclasts
- THE BLOSSOMING
- 6. How Not to Start a Gold Rush
- 7. Platforms at the Core and Periphery
- 8. Overcoming Two Conundrums
- 9. Virulent Word of Mouse
- 10. Capital Deepening and Complements
- EXPLORATION AND RENEWAL
- 11. Bill Votes with a Veto
- 12. Internet Exceptionalism Runs Rampant
- 13. The Paradox of the Prevailing View
- 14. The High Cost of a Cheap Lesson in Wireless Access
- EPILOGUE
- 15. Enabling Innovation from the Edges
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index