Marketing of Scientific and Research Institutions (MINIB) is a peer-reviewed, international, open-access scientific journal published by the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation.

The journal’s mission is to create an open platform for exchanging knowledge on the marketing of research institutions, technology transfer, and the commercialization of scientific research results.

The journal aims to present research findings, concepts, and practical solutions that support the effective implementation of innovation, the development of technology-based entrepreneurship, and the strengthening of long-term cooperation between science and industry. Special attention is given to topics such as the creation and growth of startups, knowledge management, and the role of marketing in the technology transfer ecosystem.

The scope of MINIB focuses on, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  • marketing of knowledge, technologies, and research institutions,
  • strategies for research commercialization and innovation implementation,
  • development and scaling of technology startups,
  • the role of technology transfer offices and innovation brokers,
  • knowledge- and research-based entrepreneurship,
  • innovation ecosystems and science–industry collaboration,
  • business models in scientific and research institutions,
  • institutional and systemic conditions for effective knowledge transfer.

All content is published in open access and in English (until 2020 also in Polish). Full texts are available on the journal’s website at www.minib.pl and on the Sciendo platform: www.sciendo.com/journal/MINIB.
All submissions undergo double-blind peer review prior to publication.

The journal is registered in the Polish court register of newspapers and journals under number PR 18803.

The journal is indexed in the following databases:

  • Arianta
  • Baidu Scholar
  • BazEkon
  • BazHum
  • Cabell’s Whitelist
  • CEJSH (The Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities)
  • Celdes
  • CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
  • CNPIEC – cnpLINKer
  • De Gruyter
  • Dimensions
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • EconBiz
  • European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS)
  • J-Gate
  • JournalTOCs
  • KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
  • MyScienceWork
  • Naver Academic
  • Naviga (Softweco)
  • POL-index
  • Primo Central (ExLibris)
  • ProQuest (relevant databases)
  • Publons
  • QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
  • ReadCube
  • Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
  • ROAD Directory of Open Acces Scholarly Resources
  • Semantic Scholar
  • Summon (ProQuest)
  • TDNet
  • Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
  • WanFang Data
  • WorldCat (OCLC)

In accordance with the decision of the Minister of Science dated 5 January 2024,

articles published in the journal are awarded 40 points under the Polish system of academic evaluation.

The journal is archived at the National Library of Poland and at the library of the Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation.

The electronic version is the journal’s version of the record.

eISSN 2353-8414

This is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user.

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