Abstract

Entrepreneurial Competencies and Strategic Entrepreneurship are considered as one of the important topics that still need a further Study, Research and analysis since it is one of relatively new subject. Recently the environment has shifted its focus from the traditional human resources competence to entrepreneurial competencies and applying their activity based on strategic Perspective. For the above reason this study was designed to explore the role of the entrepreneurial competencies which represent (opportunity competency, relationships competency, conceptual competency, organizing competency, strategic competency, commitment competency, learning competency, and personal competency) that the Iraqi private universities have and used to enforce the strategic entrepreneurship which represent (exploration strategy, exploitation strategy). For the purpose of fulfilling the goal of our study we select 72 collage board members of some Iraqi private universities located in the middle Euphrates geographical area, we conduct our study using questionnaire as a main tool for data collection. Seventy two questionnaires have been Distributed and only sixty of them were collected with response rate 83%. After using different methods of descriptive statistics, simple correlation coefficient, and Factor analysis we conclude that these private universities have the desire in improving their entrepreneurial competencies weather by adopting new methods to acquire these competencies or by improving the existing one in order to enhance the entrepreneurial competencies for these universities. Our study present some recommendations the most important are universities should focus on improving their entrepreneurial competencies (opportunity competency, relationship competency, conceptual competency, organizing competency, strategic competency, commitment competency, learning competency, and Personal competency) and form a common vision to improve the entrepreneurs competencies by upgrading methods of collecting knowledge and seize the opportunities and determination the needs of universities toward Stakeholders.