"Barleti" University for the pillar of education, in concepts of contemporary development models, operates and develops as an Entrepreneurial University.
UniBa as a Contemporary Entrepreneurial University is shaped as follows:

• It takes a proactive role by putting knowledge in a new position; knowledge in use to create new knowledge necessary to become an entrepreneur, in a changing competitive environment. As emerging business increases the technological level and the demand for new knowledge and skills, the government emerges in the role of public entrepreneur and financier. Innovation coming from the internal framework of the enterprise, as a comprehensive activity includes the university, which plays an active role in social and economic development;
• It develops and supports contemporary programs of various levels, including professional ones, which improve entrepreneurial skills and quality, that prepare not only specialists but creators and managers of businesses and organizations, active players in the social and economic development of the country;
• It fosters students' capacities and talents for new entrepreneurial ideas, coming from its audiences as a creator and employer, and not just as an employee in the labor market;
• It educates and shapes, not only individuals but also various organizations, through rich and complex entrepreneurship programs, contemporary entrepreneurship mechanisms such as incubators and accelerators, in an ecosystem with spaces such as technology and science parks, co-lab, capital venture, etc. ;
• It helps generate new technologies, becoming not only a source of human capacity and knowledge, but also a source of technology generation and transfer.

Barleti University as an Entrepreneurial University is already a growing source of national, civic, regional and individual economic development, a competitive advantage of UniBa in the market of HEIs. The main conceptual directions supported by the Entrepreneurial University are outlined as follows:

• Quadruple Helix
• Knowledge-based economy
• The digital future
• Life Labs
• Competitive venture
• Funds and financing
• Startup and spin-off
• Incubators and accelerators