El proposito principal de este articulo es analizar la relacion existente entre la gerencia, la investigacion y el Plan Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion, para establecer la necesaria vinculacion de la investigacion universitaria con las politicas de desarrollo establecidas a nivel nacional. Se parte de la necesidad de asumir un enfoque de integracion y vinculacion entre los ambientes politicos, academicos, sociales y productivos para lograr la transformacion cientifica-tecnologica que se requiere en el pais. Asi mismo, se desarrollo una investigacion documental a traves de un ensayo que permitio concluir que las universidades, asi como tambien las instituciones publicas y privadas dedicadas a la investigacion, deben asumir practicas gerenciales que respondan a las necesidades del entorno, en correspondencia con las politicas cientificas y tecnologicas del Estado para lograr calidad y pertinencia social en la produccion del conocimiento. Abstrac The management of the investigation within the framework of a new institutional. The main intention of this article is to make an analysis on the existing relation between the management, the investigation and the National Plan of Science, Technology and Innovation. Part of the necessity to assume an approach of integration and entailment between political, academic, social and productive atmospheres to obtain the scientific transformation - technological that is required in the country. Also, development a documentary investigation through test that allowed to conclude the urgent necessity that, as much the universities, as the public and deprived institutions dedicated to the investigation, assumes managemental practices which they respond to the necessities of the surroundings and are correspondence with the scientific and technological policies of the State, to obtain quality and social relevance in the production of the knowledge