Propuesta para fortalecer capacidades de los académicos de una universidad en la búsqueda de fondos externos: La gestión de proyectos y la transferencia de conocimiento

A university in El Salvador has considered conducting research and projects that impact its community with external funding. As a result, a projective study was conducted to understand academics' perceptions of the measures adopted by the university to seek funding, their academic output, and their knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals, enabling them to impact them through the implementation of projects in the community. The study is primarily based on the Resource-Capabilities Theory (Wernerfelt, 1984). The research methodology uses a non-experimental design with a convergent mixed-method approach. University academics participated by answering a survey and a Likert-scale instrument. The academics were found to have a low level of knowledge about impacting a particular community or population group through projects or research and thus contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They also perceive obtaining research funding as a difficult task. In light of this, the implementation of an R&D and project management system to impact the SDGs is proposed. This system seeks to strengthen human resource capabilities so that academics acquire a high level of knowledge of the SDGs that their work can impact and gain confidence in managing projects, based on increasing their knowledge of the process groups established in PMBOK®.