Conclusion

The picture that emerges from this investigative work is that of a university system undergoing a profound transformation, and searching for new balances in the complex inter-institutional structure and new organisational models capable of responding to the growing complexity. The considerations that we will try to draw suffer from this widespread turbulence. After endeavouring to take every precaution and avoid any simple generalisation, we will advance some reflections referring to the objectives and hypotheses that guided the investigation.