Lithuanian students start internship at NASA

Lithuanian Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) has announced that 4 students have been selected to participate in the international internship program at NASA Ames Research Center. Students have already left for NASA Ames, located in the USA, California, and on the first days of September started their autumn internship program together with other international students...

Lithuanian and Latvian technology scouts shared good practice

On August 23-24th the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) welcomed delegation from the Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA) in Vilnius, Lithuania. The purpose of this visit was to share the experience of both countries in the field of technology search services and technology scouting activity. The representatives of MITA have...

Pharmacological innovation: from goat colostrum to cell therapy

Lithuanian cosmetics have established a good name for themselves in the national market.  Now these organic, natural and effective products developed on the basis of a collaboration between scientists and businesses are making serious advances abroad. Pharmaceutical companies in Lithuania and beyond will undoubtedly be interested in the cell therapy products,...

European Innovation Scoreboard 2018 results: Europe must deepen its innovation edge

The Commission's 2018 European Innovation Scoreboard published today shows that the EU's innovation performance continues to improve, but further efforts are needed to ensure Europe's global competitiveness. Every year, the Commission publishes a comparative assessment of the innovation performance of Member States and benchmarks...

Gleb Maltsev: pitch your innovation without actually saying ‘innovation’

What are best practices and secrets of effective participation in various international business events and matchmaking sessions? On June 7th, Lithuanian Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) together with Lithuanian Innovation Center (LIC) in the framework of InoLink project invited effective communication expert from Estonia Gleb...

The first accelerator program in Israel of Lithuanians startups began very active

Currently,the first accelerator program in Israel is being conducted by the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA). It involves 6 Lithuanian starters – “BalticPromo“, “Biome“, “Gasefis“, “Innospark“, “Parking Industries“ and “Visela“.