Indirect commercialization

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