The Role of Universities in Cluster Development, BBU Case

As Europe is tending to a knowledge-based economy, clusters, considered as organized networks between companies, especially small and medium-size companies (SME's), need that universities get more and more involved in order to contribute to the development of entrepreneurial and managerial activity, but also to support the activity of research - development, innovation at the level required by the market and the evolution of requirements at the European and the global level Within such a context, the "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca plays an increasing significant role for business environment in the country promoting the concept (which is new for Romania) of entrepreneurial university