Abstract:[Purpose/significance] Scientific and technical information institutions have innate advantages and potentials to serve innovationdriven development,but they also have disadvantagesThis paper tries to find the optimal strategy to provide references for expanding and upgrading the services of provincial scientific and technical information institutions[Method/process] By using SWOT analysis,the paper takes provincial scientific and technical information institutions as research objects and obtains different development strategies by matching positive factors and negative factors when institutions are serving innovation[Result/conclusion] The best strategies are SO and ST,which suggest that provincial information institutions should pay attention to diversified and integrative services at the service for innovationdriven development.