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Creating a British Silicon Valley

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15 Nov 2010

I wrote a piece on David Cameron’s proposed East London tech city for Imperica:

https://georgiainjurylawyer.com

You can read the whole article here. Imperica, by the way, is a great long-form web magazine by Paul Squires, one of my co-collaborators on Intersection: Publishing. It’s a great read, and worth checking out.

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