Indirect commercialization is the acquisition or purchase of shares in companies for the purpose of implementing or preparing for the implementation of the results of scientific activity or know-how related to these results.
The process of indirect commercialization is carried out by the university through the special purpose vehicle, Centrum Innowacji Medycznych Sp. z o.o. Centrum Innowacji Medycznych Sp. z o.o.
A special purpose vehicle is a single-shareholder capital company, whose sole owner is the university. A special purpose vehicle is created mainly to take up shares in companies in order to implement the R&D results developed at the university. At the Medical University of Gdańsk, the special purpose vehicle is Centrum Innowacji Medycznych, in which 100% of the shares are held by the Medical University of Gdańsk.
MUG Spin-off
Spin-off – an enterprise founded by at least one employee of a research unit, doctoral student or student in order to commercialize and implement innovative ideas or technologies, depending organizationally, formally, legally, financially or infrastructurally on the delegating unit
Spin-out – an enterprise founded by at least one employee of a research unit, doctoral student or student in order to commercialize and implement innovative ideas or technologies, independent organizationally, formally, legally, financially or infrastructurally from the parent unit