ABSTRACT
Information science is a framework covering the role of information and knowledge in economies and in international relationships. In technology transfer, strategic national information management involves monitoring technological developments in developed countries, evaluating their probable impact, making optimal decisions on the basis of information which is often incomplete, and dealing with future events. Efficiency in information infrastructures encompasses aspects such as organization, attitude, confidence, motivation, and rules, regulations, procedures and institutions. Governments play an important role in information management in less developed countries (LDCs). Most LDCs accept the modern scientific enterprise as central to enhancing national capabilities. Knowledge creation in LDCs faces a problem from dependent infrastructures. Evidence from recent technology transfer studies indicates the need for flexible, adaptive, accountable and semi-autonomous institutions that assume uncertainty and therefore emphasize learning and the flow of information through dynamic networks. A high-profile civil service able to direct technology transfers, flexible and sensitive to international changes, underlines the Pacific Rim success.
