A comparative study of innovation support practices at the technical university of Munich and Umm Al-Qura university and the possibility of benefiting from them at Zagazig University Abstract The study aimed to benefit from innovation support practices at the Technical University of Munich and Umm Al-Qura university to support innovation and its practices at Zagazig University. The study used George Bereday’s approach in comparative studies, The study reached many results, including that the comparison universities were able to carry out many practices that support innovation, such as: Supporting entrepreneurship in the university environment, partnership between the university and the industry sector, protecting intellectual property and patents, and supporting the scientific research and research projects, in addition to Establishing some bodies responsible for supporting innovation. The study also found some proposed mechanisms that could contribute to supporting innovation and its practices at Zagazig University in light of the practices of the Technical University of Munich in Germany and Umm Al-Qura University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In line with the Egyptian cultural context. Keywords: Innovation - Entrepreneurship - Intellectual Property- Technical University of Munich - Umm Al-Qura University.