La investigación como eje articulador de la gestión del conocimiento en universidades

Abstract

In the knowledge society, Higher Education Institutions went from being educational centers, to being centers of production and knowledge management, which has led them to generate and apply administrative models for support for scientific production as the final result of their academic research activities. Objective: To analyze the variables that affect research production and knowledge generation in a regional Higher Education Institution. Materials and methods: Review of literature on the topics of Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, Intellectual Capital and descriptive quantitative analysis of a survey of the institution's research population. Results: It is validated that variables such as working conditions, the expertity of the researcher and his ability to generate collaborative learning spaces are fundamental to the development of research and research training of an institution. Discussion: The study not only gives a complete view of the topic, it proposes a series of categories or variables that affect scientific production in a higher education institution, which will in the future focus the development plans of the corporation and the strategy for research development and knowledge generation of the programs.