The overall objective of the work considered analyze the characteristics of the activity of knowledge management in research activities as well as the characterization and organizational factors and interactions that management performance. The results allowed to identify the most important elements of the processes in relation to processes of socialization, externalization , combination , and internalization of knowledge, Nonaka raised by the model , which would facilitate the transformation and creation of tacit and explicit knowledge. In relation to the analysis factors in the performance of knowledge management Abstract