Abstract
The absence of a metamodel that is able to represent the main representations in literature, and to gather, synthesize the essential components that makes up the entrepreneurial university, reduces our capacity for understanding the underlying complexities of this subject matter. The objective of this article is to propose a reflection on the main representation models of the entrepreneurial university, seeking to build a conceptual metamodel that consists of dimensions that synthesize, gather, delimit and integrate the main existing frameworks in the literature on the entrepreneurial university. This study identified and included in its analysis four main frameworks that are fragmented and scattered in the literature on the entrepreneurial university. This paper contributes by offering an integrated and extended metamodel that has the power to increase our understanding about the meaning of the entrepreneurial university and emphasize gaps that deserve special attention in this field.
Key words: Entrepreneurial University, entrepreneurship, innovation, opportunity.
