“…The scope and nature of the university institution is the object of a wide academic and political debate (Derrida, 2001;Slaughter and Leslie, 1997;Schofer and Meyer, 2005;Brint, 2005;Ramirez, 2006;Frank and Gabler, 2006). Issues like the commercialization of knowledge, technology transfer, the rise of the corporate university, the standardization of curricula and degree programmes raise a wide research interest in different disciplinary domains.…”