Entrepreneurial universities contribute directly and indirectly to supporting all stages of entrepreneurship. The challenge for entrepreneurial universities is how they can best support academic entrepreneurs through these stages of entrepreneurship. This has led to the creation of different and often ad hoc organizational units within an entrepreneurial university. The organizational challenge for entrepreneurial universities is the selection of the appropriate formal organizational architecture to support the stages of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to examine the organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities and how it supports the stages of entrepreneurship — latent, emergent, launch, and growth. Our conceptual organizational framework conflates the stages of entrepreneurship with the actual needs of university-based entrepreneurs and how these needs are supported through different formal organizational units within the organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities. Therein, we categorize three types of formal organizational units — those that focus on exploration stages of entrepreneurship, those that straddle exploration and exploitation stages of entrepreneurship, and those that boundary span all stages of entrepreneurship. We conclude by discussing the resultant organizational tensions for entrepreneurial universities and highlight future avenues of research.

创业型大学直接或间接地为支持创业的各个阶段做出贡献。创业型大学面临的挑战是如何通过这些创业阶段来最好地支持学术型创业者。这导致在一所创业大学内创建不同的且通常是临时的组织单位。创业型大学面临的组织挑战是选择合适的正式组织架构来支持创业的各个阶段。本文的目的是研究创业型大学的组织架构，以及它如何支持创业的各个阶段——潜伏期、新兴期、启动期和成长期。我们的概念性组织框架将创业的各个阶段与大学创业者的实际需求以及这些需求如何通过创业型大学组织架构内的不同正式组织单位得到支持。其中，我们将正式组织单位分为三种类型——专注于创业探索阶段的组织单位，跨越创业探索和开发阶段的组织单位，以及跨越创业各个阶段的组织单位。我们最后讨论了创业型大学由此产生的组织紧张，并强调了未来的研究途径。