Objective:

This paper aims at constructing a frame of reference for the strategic management of the scientific-research and postgraduate activity at a university faculty, resulting from the systematization of good practices and the evaluation of results achieved at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Universidad de Oriente.

Methods:

The research followed two main stages: exploratory and explanatory. At the first stage, analysis-synthesis and historical-logical methods attain to share relevant political, strategic, theoretical and institutional referents to the strategic management of the scientific research and post-graduate activity, facing Cuban universities main challenges. At the explanatory stage, by integrating the systemic-structure approach and action-research methods, the fundamental characteristics of the projection of the strategic management of the scientific research activity and postgraduate is explained; the empirical methods as documentary analysis and interviews with executives, teachers, and students were used to assess the results obtained before and after the application of good practices.

Results:

The fundamental result of the study is the proposal of a projection of the strategic management of scientific-research and postgraduate activity.

Conclusions:

The adequate strategic management of the scientific-research and postgraduate activity in a faculty, mediated by the entrepreneurship of executives and scientific/academic leaders, guarantees the improvement of the human capital formative process outcomes at the universities.

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