As parcerias entre setor empresarial e universidade : ampliação das territorialidades mercantil-corporativas no espaço público acadêmico

Abstract

Our aim here is to find out how the public and private partnership between university and corporate agents in Brazil contribute to the enlargement of the business-corporate territoriality within the academic public space, with respect to their systems of actions and objects. The adoption of these partnerships by public universities is based on neoliberal discourse which advocates that the partnership is the only way to get rid of the financial and management crises, improving the productivity and efficiency. In this way, we show that, beyond the mercantilization of knowledge, is very often the insertion of management procedures inside the spacial relations of the public universities. We consider that the historical and dialetical process, that is not dissociated in time and in space, can explain the direct and indirect ties between Higher Education and corporate sectors, and we take the university reform, that occurred in 1968, as the beginning. Nowadays, in order to understand those ties, the techno-scientific information revolution, the capitalist process of economic globalization and the neoliberal project are taked as macro references that, once related, make possible the understanding of the current transformations that take place in State and in public university itself.