Entrepreneurial University model in agricultural higher education institutions

Today, growth and development of knowledge and information is the most important factor, so that modern communities with a dynamic economy depend on people's ability to competition, creativity and innovation. In this status, university is a necessity recognized as the most effective institute in the society. In this basis, university needs to release its traditional role in order to be compatible to economic development and struggle to create new idea and knowledge then applies it to actual environments. Therefore, those universities can play this new role that is dynamic and entrepreneur and be able to develop and incorporate managerial values with expertise. An entrepreneurial university should be able to balance between research, education, outreach and the various resources. consequently, a systematic, comprehensive and holistic approach needs to be considered, to create an entrepreneurial university in agriculture sector, and principal components should be identified as well as the environment for entrepreneurship development, structure and function of the university be specifically recognized. In this study, it was found that the most important indicators of the entrepreneurial university include Informal contacts with industry, sabbatical leaves in field of entrepreneurship and Presence of business incubator facilities or science parks.