Even though the literature has widely examined culture's effect on nations' creativity and innovation level, it has done little to address the system theory's perspective. However, as proponents of the system theory have argued, nations' creativity and innovation is the cumulative effort of the various stakeholders who operate as a system, so any…

The objective of the two week long 1972 Dag Hammarskjold Seminar was to break away from traditional and theoretical concepts of information work in order to gain a practical insight into communication, especially as it applies to social and economic development. Fifty participants and lecturers from developed and developing countries in Europe and…

The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]