On the e-commercialization of science: A step toward the future?

This work discusses the advancement of science and the penetration of e-commerce into modern science as well as the openness of publications. We take into account rapidly developing information and communication technologies and the changing infrastructure of science, and this essay focuses attention on the appearance of a new characteristic of the scientific infrastructure and on the benefits it brings to science. We introduce the idea of the e-commercialization of science, and how it supplements the existing scientific infrastructure, its system of incentives, the assessment of the work of scientists, and their remuneration as the authors of ideas and innovations. We also argue that the modernization of the model of interaction among scientists from a market of collaboration to a market of scientific products, technologies, and ideas makes it possible to take advantage of scientific advancement provided by the openness of scientific communication.