ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY AND ACADEMIC CAPITALISM: AN INTERNATIONAL DEBATE

Abstract The aim of this note is to explore the international debate actually occurring within the community of entrepreneurial university development supporters and critics on such a model, stigmatizing its openness to marketing, defining it as Academic Capitalism, according to various ethical principles. This debate implies a change as for the university missions (particularly, the third one). This note also examines the most recent bibliography in this field, as a record of the increasing interest coming from the academic world, regarding the traditional Humbolt’s model of university evolution. Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el debate internacional actual entre los partidarios del desarrollo de una universidad empresarial y los que critican ese modelo, estigmatizando la apertura al mercado de la universidad como capitalismo academico , sobre la base de diferentes principios eticos. Este debate implica un cambio respecto de las misiones de la universidad (sobre todo la tercera). Este trabajo tambien busca profundizar en la mas reciente bibliografia en este sector, como simbolo del interes creciente, por parte del ambito academico, hacia la evolucion del modelo tradicional de Humboldt.