Design and Development of a Comprehensive Model of Entrepreneurial University Using a Meta-Synthesis Approach

The purpose of this research is systematically studying of theoretical models and researches carried out on the subject of entrepreneurial university in order to summarize, classify and integrate its components. 

This study is an applied research with a meta-synthesisqualitative approach. For this purpose, 128 articles were analyzed for collecting and analyzing data using an inductive qualitative content analysis approach based on open, axial and selective coding. 

Following coding, the components of entrepreneurial university were organized in 15 main categories, 44 concepts and 293 codes, and the significance and priority of each concept was determined using Shannon entropy.

Based on the findings of the research, the concepts of structure type, entrepreneurial support culture, management support from entrepreneurial activities, entrepreneurial goals and strategies, knowledge commercialization, entrepreneurial curriculum, introducing university entrepreneurs as role models, forming marketing centers, developing communication and networking have the highest importance and highest rank among the concepts. Finally, the suggested model was presented based on the derived components.