The present invention allows the production of a polymerizable
hyperbranched polyester by introducing polymerizable unsaturated double
bonds into the molecular terminals of a hyperbranched polyester polyol
(A), which is obtained by condensation polymerization a polyhydroxy
monocarboxylic acid in which there are at least two hydroxyl groups, the
carbon atom adjacent to the carboxy group is saturated carbon atom, and
the hydrogen atoms on said carbon atom are all substituted, by reacting
the hyperbranched polyester polyol (A) and an alkyl ester of a carboxylic
acid having a polymerizable unsaturated double bond (B) by a
transesterification in the presence of at least one type of
transesterification catalyst (C) selected from the group consisting of a
dialkyl tin oxide and a stanoxane, without causing side reactions such as
nucleophilic addition reactions of terminal hydroxyl groups to
polymerizable unsaturated double bonds of the hyperbranched polyester
polyol (A), or thermal polymerization of the polymerizable unsaturated
double bonds. The polymerizable hyperbranched polyester can be produced
at high efficiency using a transesterification that uses as an alkyl
ester of a carboxylic acid having a polymerizable unsaturated double bond
(B), which is easily obtained as an industrial raw material, and without
altering the original backbone structure of the molecular chains of the
hyperbranched polyester polyol (A) by hydrolysis and so forth.