The commercialization of research results, understood as their use and dissemination to other entities in a manner that allows for financial gain. In this regard, the general rules that apply to the commercial exploitation of economic and transferable intellectual property rights protecting the results of scientific activities are supplemented with specific statutory regulations. They define the procedure for the commercialization of the results of scientific activities carried out in universities and research institutes, the rights and obligations of researchers in the field of commercialization and the rules for distribution of profits from commercialization between the entity and the single author or members of the research teams.