Abstract

The article discusses the amendment to the Higher Education Act concerning the rights to research results and their commercialization. The new provisions have been interpreted and commented. The possible consequences and impact of that amendment on the academic community and collaboration between science and industry have also been outlined. The most important changes include: a commercialization decision and the consequences of failure to make it in the form of an obligation to transfer the rights to the author; introduction of detailed conditions for the distribution of funds derived from the commercialization between the authors and a public university, as well as a requirement for public universities to establish the rules for using their research infrastructure. On the other hand, contrary to earlier intentions, the legislator chose not to specify the issue of rights to research results generated by graduate and undergraduate students, which often gives rise to many concerns in practice.