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Lawrence Harmon

A start-up center for Roxbury?

By Lawrence Harmon

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 17, 2012

Boston is green with envy over the Cambridge Innovation Center, a brilliant concept that provides flexible office space in Kendall Square for start-up, technology-oriented companies and venture capitalists. Boston will break ground soon on a scaled-down version of the concept in the city’s Innovation District. Far more impressive would be an expansion of innovation centers to outlying, poor neighborhoods.

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