ABSTRACT
This paper examines the transformations of the Brazilian university in relationship to the institutional configuration, forms of financing, management and production of knowledge. First, it emphasizes the Humboldtian, Napoleonic and North American university models in order to capture the development of these concepts and their convergence and materialization in the modern university. After that, it reveals that through a processes of economic internationalization, the idea of the university came to gradually and historically align itself to the designs of economic development through the of scientific and technological policy, under the guidance of supranational organisms and organic intellectuals of capital. Finally, it points to the university counter-reform as well as a triple process that includes: the subordinated integration of education with science, technology and innovation policy; institutional diversification and hierarchization according to the supply and length of the courses; and entrepreneurship education.
KEYWORDS
university; university counter-reform; mercantilization of education