Impact of the qualities of the manager and type of university on the development of the entrepreneurial university

This paper sheds light on the importance of the evolution of the university towards an entrepreneurial one. To clarify the specific characteristics allowing the university to become entrepreneurial, we conducted a quantitative study on 120 heads of Tunisian universities. Our results show that for a university to become an entrepreneur, it has to undergo internal transformations. In this sense, the role of the manager and the university type has a positive impact on the development of an entrepreneurial university. Therefore, the proposed conceptual model can serve as a reference or a starting point for further research aimed at studying the entrepreneurial university.