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)

info@sunrisevalley.lt

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: info@linpra.lt; tel./fax: +370 5 231 2520; web-site: www.linpra.lt.