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This book covers the ever-increasing problem of information overload from both the professional and academic perspectives. Focusing on the needs of practicing engineers and professional communicators, it addresses the causes and costs of information overload, along with strategies and techniques for reducing and minimizing its negative effects. The theoretical framework of information overload and ideas for future research are also presented. The book brings together an international group of authors, providing a truly global point of view on this important, rarely covered topic.

The role of culture in entrepreneurship and innovation, and interactions among technology, progress, and economic growth that result in entrepreneurship and innovation are the subject for this book on entrepreneurship. Chapters in the book include: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Culture, a Mattter of Interaction Between Technology, Progress and Economic Growth? (Jan Ulijn and Terrence E. Brown ) Conceptualizing Innovation Management and Culture in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR): An Exploratory Study of Organization-Specific Critical Success Factors (Naubahar Sharif and Ivy Chan) Knowledge Management, Institutions and Professional Cultures in Engineering Consulting Services: The Case of Hong Kong (Erik Baark) Scientometrics and the Evaluation of European Integration (Koen Frenken and Loet Leydesdorff) Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development Revisited (Robbin Te Velde) Skunk Works: A Sign of Failure, a Sign of Hope? (Terrence E. Brown) Entrepreneurship and the Design Process: The Paradox of Innovation in a Routine Design Process (Jeremy Legardeu, Jean Fracois Boujut and Henri Tiger) Culture's Role in Entrepreneurship: Self-Employment Out of Dissatisfaction (Geert Hofstede, Niels G. Nooderhaven, A. Roy Thurik, Lorraine M. Ulhamer, Alexander R.M. Wennekers, and Ralph E. Wildeman) Towards Cooperation between European Start-Ups: The Position of the French, Dutch and German Entrepreneurial and Innovative Engineer (Jan Ulijn and Alain Fayolle) Multi-Path System Emergence: An Evolutionary Framework to Analyse Process Innovation (Takahiro Fujimoto) (JSD).