The importance of openness to the external environment for the development of entrepreneurial university

Nowadays, since the university's openness of its external environment is a key element in making it entrepreneurial, its analysis is of great importance. For this reason, we have conducted a quantitative survey of 200 heads of Tunisian universities to find out if the university's openness to its external environment is actually important and therefore can be transformed into an entrepreneurial one. In fact, this openness can be achieved mainly either through a partnership with national and international universities or through a relationship with the business world. Nevertheless, these two variables were treated in the literature for the first time in the Tunisian context through a quantitative study. In fact, the originality of our proposed model is to quantitatively test these two new variables in order to provide a better and new presentation of the entrepreneurial university and other environmental factors that condition the development of an entrepreneurial university, which also enables us to know the researchers who have dealt with this topic.