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The following information is for those who are interested in the class of the winter semester, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary of Information Studies, the University of Tokyo.

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Network Economies
Syllabus
v. 1.0

Hideyuki Tanaka
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies,
The University of Tokyo


Theme: Geographic Aspects of Digital Economy

The purpose of the class is to understand geographic aspects of digital economy.
The class is conducted in a seminar style. A student will be assigned a chapter of the textbook and a paper. Each student should report and lead discussion based on an assigned chapter or paper by turns.
Grade will be given based on each class participation and report about an assigned chapter or paper. There will be no examination.

Class wiki: http://www3.atwiki.jp/net-econ/pages/1.html
User name and password will be announced in the class.

Schedule:
Oct. 7: Introduction
Oct. 14: Malecki and Moriset(2008), Chap 1
Oct. 21: => Oct. 23, 17:00-20:00, Communication Dynamics Symposium, Dynamics of Media Conversion
Oct. 28: Malecki and Moriset(2008), 2,3
Nov. 4: Malecki and Moriset(2008), Chap 4,5
Nov. 11: Malecki and Moriset(2008), Chap 6,7
Nov. 18: Malecki and Moriset(2008), Chap 8,9
Nov. 25: Gasper and Glaeser(1998)
Dec. 2: Forman et al.(2005a)
Dec. 9: Florida et al.(2008)
Dec. 16: Aslesen et al.(2007)
Jan. 13: Arora and Forman(2007)
Jan. 20: =>Info-plosion symposium, TBA in web site
http://www.infoplosion.nii.ac.jp/info-plosion/ (in Japanese)
Jan. 27: Conclusion

Textbook and Required Papers
Aslesen, H. W. & Isaksen A. (2007), “Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Urban Industrial Development,” Service Industrial Journal, 27(3), 321-338.
Arora, A. & Forman, C. (2007), “Proximity and Information Technology Outsourcing: How local are IT services markets?” Journal of Management Information Systems, 24(2), pp.73-102.
Florida, Richard, Charlotta Mellander, and Kevin Stolarick(2008), “Inside the Black Box of Regional Development: Human Capital, the Creative Class and Tolerance,” Journal of Economic Geography, 8, pp.615-649.
Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein(2005a), “How Did Location Affect Adoption of the Commercial Internet?: Global Village vs. Urban Leadership.” Journal of Urban Economics, 58, 389-420.
Gasper, Jess and Edward L. Glaeser(1998), “Information Technology and the Future of Cities,” Journal of Urban Economics, 43, pp.136-156.
Malecki, Edward J. and Bruno Moriset(2008), The Digital Economy: Business Organization, Production Processing and Regional Developments, New York: Routledge. (Reserved in III Library)

Other References
Biteux-Orain, C. & Guillain R. (2004). Changes in the intrametropolitan location of producer services in Ile-de-France (1978-1997): Do information technologies promote a more dispersed spatial pattern? Urban Geography, 25(6), 550-578.
Bresnahan, T. F. & Trajtenberg, M. (1995). General purpose technologies ‘Engines of Growth’? Journal of Econometrics, 65, 83-108.
Cairncross, Frances(1997:2001). The Death of Distance: How the Communication Revolution Will Change Our Lives, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press.
Florida, Richard(2008), Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, New York: Basic Books.
Forman, C., Goldfarb, A., Greenstein, S. (2003). The geographic dispersion of commercial Internet use. In Cranor, S. F. & Wildman, S.S.(Eds.), Rethinking rights and regulations: Institutional responses to new communications technologies (pp.113-145). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Forman, C., Goldfarb, A. and Greenstein, S.(2005b). Geographic location and the diffusion of Internet technology. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 4, 1-13.
Glaeser, E. L. , Kallal, H.D., Scheinkman, J.A., Shleifer, A. (1992). Growth in Cities. The Journal of Political Economy, 100(6), Centennial Issue. 1126-1152.
Henderson, V., Kuncoro, A., Turner, M. (1995). Industrial development in cities. Journal of Political Economy, 103(5), 1067-1090.
Ioannides, Y. M., Overman, H.G., Rossi-Hansberg, E., Schmidheiny, K. (2008). The effect of information and communication technologies on urban structure. Economic Policy, April, 201-242.
Isaksen, A. (2004). Knowledge-based clusters and urban location: The clustering of software consultancy in Oslo. Urban Studies, 41(5), 1157-1174.
Jacobs, J. (1969), The economy of cities, New York: Vintage.
Krugman, P. (1991). Increasing returns and economic geography. Journal of Political Economy, 99(3), 483-499.
Kolko, J. (2002). Silicon mountains, silicon molehills: Geographic concentration and convergence of Internet industries in the US. Information Economics and Policy, 14, 211-232.
OECD (2005), Enhancing the performance of the service sector, Paris: OECD.
Pons-Novell, J. & Viladecans-Marsal, E. (2006). Cities and the Internet: The end of distance? Journal of Urban Technology, 13(1), 109-132.
Porter, M. E. (1990), The competitive advantage of the nations, New York: Free Press.
Tanaka, Hideyuki and Kondo Masanori(2008), The Impact of Firms’ Location on Usage of an Information Communication Network: An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Firms. Journal of Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, no. 74, pp. 1-20 (in Japanese).
Tanaka, Hideyuki and Takeshi Okamoto(2008). Effects of Information Communication Technology on Urban and Rural Service Sectors. Makoto Oya, Ryuya Uda, Chizuko Yasunobu eds. Towards Sustainable Society on Ubiquitous Networks. New York: Springer. pp.265-277.
Zook, M. A. (2002), “Grounded capital: Venture financing and the geography of the Internet industry, 1994-2000,” Journal of Economic Geography, vol.2, no.2, pp. 151-177.