THE NEXT LITHUANIA..

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THE NEXT LITHUANIA..

• Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas

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Purpose

• To identify the most important long-term issues
  that face any Nation when it comes to upgrading
  the competitive advantage of the national economy
  in the global Information and Knowledge Society

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Conclusions

• Development of Lithuanias KE is tightly tied
  with development of knowledge base for
  traditional industries and services
• Development of high-tech products within the
  traditional industries as well as innovations in
  management and technology resulting in a higher
  value added, must base the development of these
  industries
• In the long run Lithuania has to develop new
  competencies and it should be new generation of
  Knowledge managers

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Strategic KE Institutions in Lithuania

• Committee of Information Society in Parlament
• Council of Knowledge Society under the President
• Comission of Information Society development
  under the Prime Minister

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A Knowledge-Based Development Strategy

• Access
• Access to the rich diversity of human social and
  cultural experience in order to build not only an
  informed or knowledgeable society, but a wise one
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• Empowerment
• The capacity and opportunity to participate
  actively in local, national and global
  decision-making processes 
• Governance
• Institutional framework to promote and encourage
  smart-partnership
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SITUATION

• The real problem is, that in many improvements
  Strategic decision making cases Political
  leadership from strategy has degenerated into
  orchestrating operational.
• There is great need for critical mass of
  highfliers vision builders, change masters, IT
  alliance managers, relationship builders,
  reformers and organizational re-architects

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Primary tasks, where we need assistance

• Provide good quality KE legislation
• Ensure effective internal IT and KM use in the
  government structures
• Creating favorable climate for business and IT
  synergy
• KM education and training issues
• Involvement in e-commerce processes
• E-knowledge creation fostering

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INVITATION

• To create a Educational KE Program for
  TrainingDevelopment of State Executives
• To form Strategic Partnership between WB and the
  Government of Lithuania for developing national
  KE Policy
• To assist in country Knowledge Assessment
• To help realize KE Public Policy in EU accession
  countries

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URBAN-KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY PROGRAM (WB)

• Four cities in the EU accession countries could
  form a first group to obtain WB assistance to
  knowledge economy work
• Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is chosen as
  allready making good use of KE activities
• The city level program can mesh well with what is
  underway in the area of KE activities at the
  national level
• The proposal to place special effort on
  assisting Lithuania to develop city based
  knowledge economy strategy, integrated to the
  regional development programmes of Kaunas and
  other major cities

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HP, IBM, Sonex, Alna and others.
Involvement of the private sector Strategic
Alliance The Window to the Future

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Co-operation of business, science and government

• 2002 01 09 the letter of agreement was signed
  between
• Vilnius municipality
• Vilnius University
• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
• Forum of the knowledge economy.

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Competitive industries
Biotechnologies
Biocentras, Biosinteze, Biotechna,
Fermentas
Electronics
Elsis, Precizika, Vilniaus vingis
IT
Alna, Baltic Amadeus, Blue Bridge, Penki
kontinentai, Sonex grupe
Lasers
Eksma, Ekspla, viesos konversija
Telecommunications
Bite GSM, Lietuvos telekomas, Omnitel,
Tele 2
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SUNRISE VALLEY (University Campus area)

• Vilnius University and Vilnius Gediminas
  Technical University.
• Institute of Material and Applied Research.
• Laser research centre.
• International Business School.
• Student campus (10 thousand students).
• UNESCO associated centre of excellence research
  and training in basic sciences
• 18 ha area for development.

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UNIVERSITY CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES

• IT
• Laser technologies
• Semiconductor Optoelectronics
• Nanno-technologies
• Knowledge-based counseling.