This report was presented in order to know the process of formative and professional research that has been developed in the Faculties of Business Administration of the Universities of the city of Bogotá through a questionnaire that contained open and closed questions and threw some data to generate an information base that will serve for the macro project that will be under the direction of the teacher Daniel Marín, considering that research has been and will continue to be a subject of great interest, and its importance lies in the need to be present in the development of training processes. The concept of research has been defined through time in different ways, definitions that are confusing when determining the objectives of the research; for this we will take into account: the etymology and its current meaning, both in a broad sense and in the restricted sense to give a clear idea of what research is