Analysis of Innovation Dynamics in Lithuania
Most innovation policy-shaping documents, such as the Programme for High Technology Development, implementing provisions of the White Book on Lithuanian Science and Technology, etc, provide for that high technology development and relating R&D are one of the key priorities in gearing up the national economy towards the knowledge economy. However, the profile of innovation in business reveals that business capacities to create strategic, high value-added generating innovation are especially weak. The adaptive character of innovative activities prevails in Lithuania, which translates in practice as adaptation of foreign technology and production methods in the domestic market.
Analysis of Innovation Dynamics in the European Union
Economy globalization has altered the global economic order within extremely short time: it has brought new possibilities and challenges. In the conditions of this new economic order, Europe will retain its competitiveness if only it gains greater resourcefulness, better response to consumer needs and dispositions, and more intensively introduces innovation.
As regards all-EU innovation, the European Union is still lagging behind its main competitors, in spite of the fact that some Member States rank among the leading global economies.












