A Universidade pública e as estratégias nacionais de desenvolvimento: percurso por uma trajetória de conflitos e expectativas

The article analyzes the role attributed to the university in national development strategies from its creation. Conflicts and expectations are present from the beginning of the first universities in the country, in the debates about the role and their relation with economic development. Supported by the literature, the analysis indicates the importance that the university acquired the project of modernization, industrialization and development of the state, especially in the place assigned to it in the national-developmentalist, neo-liberals and neodevelopmentism that consider building science strategies, technology and innovation and the training of qualified professionals as decisive factors in asserting their respective models.