How can universities use organizational factors to stimulate entrepreneurship? A quantitative study on entrepreneurial behaviour at the departments of management & governance and behavioural sciences of the University of Twente.

In order to find a solution on how a university can become more entrepreneurial, the following research question has been developed: Which organizational factors are the strongest stimulators of entrepreneurial orientation within a university context? Organizational factors are management support, work discretion, time availability and rewards/reinforcement. The organizational factors are borrowed from literature. This research focusses on entrepreneurial orientation at the individual level, measured at two departments of the University of Twente