La descentralización del Estado y su incidencia en la investigación universitaria

Abstract

The decentralization of state competency began with the use of the resource established in article 137 of the National Constitution of Venezuela, where the Congress of the Republic approved in 1989 the Organic Law of Decentralization as a strategy of the Venezuela state to propitiate political administrative, and management changes. This law opened the possibility for states to assume a number of areas of competence aimed at the development of the regions in as self-sustaining entities. This paper develops an analysis in reference to the determination of the reach of those policies of state decentralization in the area of higher education, and especially in the area of research in the university sector. There are decisions which refer to incidents in the politics of state decentralization at the regional level in financing priorities and pertinence of the scientific activity in the sector where it intervenes, as to its relationship with the social and productive surroundings, to the weaknesses and fortitudes of the universities in attending the increasing demands of the region, in the inherent aspects to their fundamental programs, and in other aspects that have appeared in the process of regional development management and decentralization.