THE NEXT LITHUANIA.. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas

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

Conclusions Development of Lithuania’s 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

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

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 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

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

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

INVITATION To create a Educational KE Program for Training&Development 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

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

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

Co-operation of business, science and government the letter of agreement was signed between: the letter of agreement was signed between: Vilnius municipality Vilnius municipality Vilnius University Vilnius University Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Forum of the knowledge economy. Forum of the knowledge economy.

Competitive industries Electronics Lasers Biotechnologies IT “Elsis”, “Precizika”, “Vilniaus vingis” “Eksma”, “Ekspla”, “Šviesos konversija” “Biocentras”, “Biosintezė”, “Biotechna”, “Fermentas” “Alna”, “Baltic Amadeus”, “Blue Bridge”, “Penki kontinentai”, “Sonex grupė” Telecommunications “Bitė GSM”, “Lietuvos telekomas”, “Omnitel”, “Tele 2”

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

UNIVERSITY CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES IT; Laser technologies; Semiconductor Optoelectronics; Nanno-technologies; Knowledge-based counseling.