Towards an Algerian entrepreneurial university : a proposed model for transformation mechanisms and needed practices

الملخص EN

The purpose of this paper was to discuss the characteristics of the entrepreneurial university and the main mechanisms of shifting form the traditional to the entrepreneurial one as a proposition to facilitate the transformation for Algerian universities.

we accomplish this objective by presenting some obstacles with regard to the fostering of entrepreneurial change at universities and studying some leading models in the field.

we conclude by answering the question whether Algerian university is an entrepreneurial one, answer was no since it is performing some entrepreneurial activities which is not enough to define it as an entrepreneurial one.

we end up by recommending that Algerian university must embed entrepreneurship in every part of itself, build up and maintain a strong relationship with its surrounded economic and social environment, responds to its needs and challenges, solves its problems.