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Figure 9: Taken from Flemming, L. and Frenken, K. (2007) ‘The evolution of inventor networks in the Silicon Valley and Boston regions’, Advances in Complex Systems (graphed in Pajek with Kamada-Kawai/Free algorithm http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/ pub/ networks/ pajek/)

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Reading 2: KPMG International Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting 2011, KPMG

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