ABSTRACT
The article addresses the transformations in contemporary Higher Education on an international scale, driven by globalization. The paper is based on a recent review of the literature relevant to the topic addressed. This text focuses on a set of recent ideas that seek to strengthen the links between universities and the demands of the economic field, which tends to compromise their autonomy in the face of external forces, whose principle has marked the history of universities.In its conclusion, the article stresses that, despite being pressured by the globalization process to respond in a utilitarian way to the demands of the economic field, due to the increase in knowledge flows, that occurs at the global level, universities have the possibility of producing critical knowledge regarding the dynamics of globalization process itself.
Keywords
Globalization; Transnational space of Higher Education; Knowledge society; New public management; Entrepreneurship