Responding to the entrepreneurial university : a measurement scale

Abstract

Nowadays we talk about entrepreneurship as if it was a new phenomenon, but what many people overlook is that the first symptoms were already several years ago, if someone is walking down the streets looking for people to give him/her their personal concept about what entrepreneurship is, probably this person will find answers like "It is the action of creating a company", "It is to have an innovative idea and from there to make a business plan," "It is to identify and exploit an opportunity", definitions which are right but unfortunately they do not go beyond they do not transcend. If this person had been asked about this before getting enlist with the theme of entrepreneurship he/she would have been thinking like this for a long time, which is not wrong, but this definition only applies to one of the many variants that entrepreneurship represents. Entrepreneurship can occur in many settings and has both, similar and different characteristics. Thus, this thesis will focus on one of these variants, known as “entrepreneurial universities”.