Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education Barbara Kudrycka has announced plans to modify Poland’s intellectual property law by providing scientists with property rights to the results of their research. The ministry aims to boost innovation among Polish researchers by safeguarding that inventors receive the financial benefits generated by intellectual property rights to their inventions. Currently, the property rights are allocated to the universities which employ the scientists.

In an interview the minister gave to local news agency PAP [in Polish], Kudrycka said that the current legal framework fails to adequately reward inventors for their achievements in research. This, the Polish minister said, has negative consequences for Poland’s innovativeness.