(Universidad Icesi, 2011-07-06) Trujillo Dávila, María Andrea; Guzmán Vásquez, Alexander
Universities in Colombia initially
focused on teaching. Some of them,
both public and private, have reconsidered their vision and have developed
policies aimed at incorporating research into their priorities. Clear mechanisms of incentives for publication
have been designed for the purpose of
getting faculty members involved in
the production of knowledge and the
divulging of results through national
and international indexed journals,
books based on research findings,
and academic conferences and events.
This article aims to highlight the
value of Contract Theory in order to
provide an understanding of the research incentive policy at Colombian
universities, conducting a review of
major theoretical contributions to
moral hazard problems and discussing research incentive policies in the
light of these concepts.
