Assessing the Impact of Universities’ Entrepreneurial Activity on Regional Competitiveness

The aim of this study is to test the multidimensional construct Entrepreneurial University (EU), and therefore confirm whether EU factors make a positive contribution regional competitiveness. Data were collected from ten Portuguese Public Universities (PPUs) through self-administered questionnaire. First- second-order confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) performed multiple linear regression analyses. main findings show that related factors—perceived combined with actual metrics—especially entrepreneurial supporting measures, positively contributed This shows policy makers universities are not merely cost centres but provide knowledge spillovers can have influence on