The aim of the article is to present the role of modern university in today’s world. The main reason is to describe the strategy and actions taken by the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów related with stimulating of the academic entrepreneurship. The UITM fulfils the mission of entrepreneurial university by the range of activities realized in the field of academic entrepreneurship, knowledge commercialization and cooperation with business.
The main reason for this article is to show the experience of the following European countries: Finland, Germany, Spain and Holland as a good field for academic enterprise idea. This article is presenting the best practices of those European countries in creating chains between academic knowledge and economy, implementation for programmes supporting innovation of the academic companies, commercialized and knowledge transfer. The main goal of this article is to point out effective model solutions to realize the mission for modern universities in Poland.