There is no more important a time to bring together international business to promote innovation and knowledge sharing to increase growth exports and prosperity.

BBC: Liverpool waterfront

It also defined corporate culture, from how employees connected with consumers to the way companies structured knowledge sharing, redefined by continues technological innovation and The Internet Revolution.

FORBES: Demolishing the Social Hype

Innovation is street-based, with neighborhood car sharing and neighborhood kitchens.

FORBES: Transition Towns - Where Innovation Takes Place At A Certain Pace

The GSP12 program launched back in June (you can watch a highlight of the Opening Ceremony here), and for almost two months, the class has experienced a crash course in innovation, with more than 160 lecturers sharing their experience and insight through intense days and long nights, including SU co-founder Ray Kurzweil.

FORBES: Singularity U Launches 2012 Class: Bring On The Future!

Where planning is concerned, the international agencies should, the Group agreed, support innovation, decentralized planning, South-South experience-sharing, and be more transparent as to their own roles.

UNESCO: Bulletin on EFA action worldwide No.45

Together we surfaced opportunities in areas where innovation might deliver greater value at lower cost such as network sharing, network (and security) operations centers, and wireless applications.

WHITEHOUSE: Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog