This paper presents an appraisal of the change of paradigm which is being implemented in the present management of the Technological Information Center (Citec) of the Institute for Technological Researches of São Paulo State (IPT-SP). It is an attempt to display the performance of the information professional as an agent of change and the forms which can interfere in the organization culture, within the IPT new strategy, sharing risks of and benefits from the technological development in the productive, private and public sectors.
Technological information; Performance of the information professional; Professional as agent of changes; Organization culture