Dr. Henrikas Mykolaitis LINPRA, the Lithuanian Engineering Industries Association
April 5, 2011 Hannover
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS IN VILNIUS AND DEVELOPMENT OF
ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES IN LITHUANIA
LINPRA, THE ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION OF LITHUANIA
LINPRA, established in 1993 as self-governing business organization, represents interests of the Lithuanian MET industries sector at the national and international levels
LINPRA’s mission is to promote the growth and competitiveness of the sector, in
particular, by:
promotion of development of the business regulatory framework,
promotion of modernisation of R&D public infrastructure,
development of B2B services within the LINPRA’s network and outside,
promotion of HR development,
organisation of the largest in the Baltics sectorial trade fair
“BALTTECHNIKA” (May 17-19, 2011).
LINPRA is a member of ORGALIME, CEEMET, ETP ManuFuture; is going to join
Public Private Partnership EFFRA – European Factories of the Future Research
Association
SECTOR PRODUCTION, 1Q 2005 – 4Q 2010
CHALLENGE: LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY
LT
DE
LV
CZ
RO
PL
EE
SK
BG
EU27 SI
EU15 J
P
US
TR
CR
LU
FI
SE
DK
PRODUCTIVITY IN PPS (EU27-100%, 2009)
COUNTRIES
STRATEGIC ECONOMIC GOALS FOR LITHUANIA: 2015 – THE NOTHERN EUROPE SERVICE HUB2020 – THE NORDIC EUROPE INNOVATION CENTRE
• Reform of science and higher education in Lithuania: engineering industry expects
that changes will effectively support and enhance long-term value added for it, by :– ensuring quality of specialists to be in line with the market requirements,– ensuring high level of scientific research work and effectiveness of public-private
partnership in R&D field.• 5 Integrated Science, Studies and Business Centres (Valleys) are being set up in
Lithuania in the form of clusters of academic and research institutions, Competence and
Excellence Centres, Science Technology parks and Industrial parks. • 10 National Complex Programmes for development of knowledge-intensive business
sub-sectors, including Engineering and IT are launched in 2009.• A number of the Structural support schemes are available for individual companies,
associations and municipal institutions in the fields of R&D, modernisation of
technologies and business management as well as development of HR.
Other; 11%IT; 34%
Energetics & Electronics; 11%Biotechnology; 1%Engineering,
chemical products and ; 12%
Medicine & Pharmacy; 3%
Financial, Business and other
Concultancy Services; 23%
Environmental protection
technologies; 5%
• Vilnius - the capital of Lithuania:
• with a population of 560 thousand,• with a population of 850 thousand within a radius of 50 km,• with a population of 15,5 million within a radius of 300 km.
KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY – PRIORITY OF THE STATE,
MUNICIPAL AND PRIVATE BUSINESS
R&D Intensive and High-tech Industries in Vilnius
KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IN VILNIUS
Sunrise Valley STP Lasers, ITT, electronics,
engineering
Santara Valley/Visoriai ITP Biotech, IT, medicine
New materials, nanotech
North Town TP – IT, environmental
Paneriai cluster – Biotech
Vismaliukai IIZ– laser, new materials, semiconductor physics,
organic electronics, engineering and ICT
SUNRISE VALLEY STP CAMPUS
• The biggest concentration of studies and R&D in
Baltic countries
• Territory of 62 ha reserved for further
development (incl. 2,4ha for business support
infrastructure)
VISORIAI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PARK
Goals:
Develop STP infrastructure for the
establishment of new ICT businesses
and growth of existing ones
Provide environment for innovations
in ICT and interaction of business
and academia
Attract investment into Hi-Tech and
sstimulate export of ICT products
and technologies.
www.vitp.lt
Public institution founded by Government and Municipality, universities and ICT businesses -
Part of Santara Valley
NORTHTOWN TECHNOLOGY PARK
• Northtown Technology Park (NTP) is a public institution created to manage the
innovative environment in the Campus of Northtown, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Founded in August 2002 by the Vilnius City Municipality (JSC “Šiaurės
miestelis”) and the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania, and supported by local
universities Northtown strives to become the city's major high tech business
center
VISMALIUKAI INNOVATION INVESTMENT ZONE
The zone will offer companies to invest in:• Strategically placed property whit a co-shared risk through public-private partnership• Growing high-earning client base - through tights with local business incubators and industry
parks• Outsourcing or in-sourcing technology services – through a Laboratory Centre to be set up by
Lithuania’s PV Technology Cluster:
17 companies (624 employees), including The Applied Research Institute for Prospective
Technologies (ProTech), NTP, “Šiaurės miestelis and an international partner – GiraSol
Inc.,
5 public research institutions, incl. 3 major universities; ties with leading research groups in
Europe (laser and optoelectronics technology, material science and nanotechnology,
semiconductor physics, organic electronics, civil engineering and ICT).
RECENT RESULTS:
• FDI: 28 foreign companies accomplished 35 new FDI projects and created 5300 new
jobs in Lithuania in 2009, 42 new investment projects were launched in Lithuania in
2010, the major ones are as follows:
– BARCLAYS BANK (UK),
– WESTERN UNION, IBM and CSC (US),
– IDEAL INVENT TECHNOLOGIES (India), etc.
• “Doing Business 2011”: the World Bank gave the Lithuanian business regulatory
environment the 2nd place among all the new EU Member States: Lithuania came 8th
out of all EU countries and 23th in the list of 183 countries that were investigated
• The EC award “Regions of Excellence”: in January 2011, Lithuania won the award
for successful implementation of policies, programmes and projects in line with the
Europe 2020 strategy. 2 other winners are Brandenburg (Germany) and Wales (UK)
WE ARE CAPABLE AND OPEN FOR COOPERATION.
YOU ARE WELCOME!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!
VISIT US AT:
Hall 5 Stand F36
CONTACTS: e-mail: [email protected]; tel./fax: +370 5 231 2520; web-site: www.linpra.lt.
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