  This article shows how the Universities and higher education and research
institutions obey more and more to criteria of profitability and effectiveness,
following the example of the industry. The Universities and the academic
communities are the main producers of knowledge, which is not quantifiable and,
therefore, cannot find an equivalent in money, which is quantifiable. Many
scientists intend to establish a connection between knowledge and money, using
for that a set of criteria of evaluation. Being useless these criteria, the
scientists resort to a system of honour, but the science is essentially normal
knowledge.
