Retrospective and prospective: administration of research in the institute of industrial research

Abstract

The process of research of the Institute of Industrial Researches is approached (IIIFI) of the University bigger than San Andres (UMSA) in relation to the research guidelines and the production of knowledge settled down in the new Political Constitution of the State Plurinacional of Bolivia and the Law of the Education. The process of adaptation of the IIIFI regarding these guidelines and in coherence with the orientations settled down in the Organic Statute of the UMSA; they seek to promote investigation activities from a perspective of institutionalized linking, coherent to the social demand. In this respect, the study of working of the IIIFI constituted a retrospective mechanism, and supplementing with the visions at international level in relation to the superior education and the experiences pilot in the national context, it facilitated the prospective one institutional. That is to say, itprojects a new form of research administration and pertinent to the integral development of the Bolivian society.