Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) is the main governmental institution, responsible for implementation of innovation and research policy in Lithuania. MITA was established with the aim to foster the cooperation of business and science and to create a favorable environment for entrepreneurship, innovation and research in Lithuania. Also, MITA fulfills an important task in strengthening the public-private partnership and clustering processes in a country, developing the innovation management skills, especially in research commercialization and technology transfer.
The main activities of MITA are:
- funding of R&D projects or joint research projects of business and science;
- developing the innovation management skills, especially in research commercialization and technology transfer;
- coordinating of pre-commercial procurement;
- promoting protection of intellectual property rights by consultation, trainings and funding;
- consulting on issues regarding applied research, innovation and technology;
- strengthening the clusterization processes and public-private partnership;
- promoting participation in international R&D and innovation programmes and initiatives;
- implementation innovation policy in Lithuania
MITA brings 11 innovative and promising Lithuanian companies for the participation at China High Tech Fair and doing business in China:
- Altechna R&D – a companydevelopinginstrumentsandsolutions for ultrashortlasermicromachiningtasks;
- Iamus Inovacijos - a leading developer and marketer of the SmarterSpaces™ family of solutions. SmarterSpaces transforms simple geographic spaces – hotels, retail stores, buildings, neighborhoods and cities - into intelligent ecosystems that engage their users to promote new forms of social commerce;
- SONARO – a company developingcloud-basedbackendsoftwaresolutions;
- TokenMill - is a linguisticengineeringcompanywhichprovidesmediamonitoringandnaturallanguagegenerationsolutions, appliedresearchanddevelopmentservicesinArtificialIntelligenceapplication (predictiveandexploratoryanalytics) area for differentdomains, e.g. medicine, finances, predictivemaintenance, etc.;
- UnoParks – a company of designers, developers and operators of high end Adventure Parks (outdoor and indoor) and children playgrounds around the globe.The number of our bespoke Indoor and Outdoor Adventure Parks & Playgrounds in Scandinavia, China (5 projects so far), USA, Europe and the Middle East is constantly growing.
- WRYEDGE – a company offering industrial design and engineering solutions, various type of 3D printing, CNC machining, laser marking and cutting, vacuum casting, 3D jewelry, creating od multifunctional laser devices for material treatments, which can be adapted to the precise manufacturing and supply industries;
- Ideja 3D – a company specialising in high quality FDM and SLA (DLP) 3D printing and 3D scanning services;
- Molbertas – a company creating F-brush which is a revolutionary, easy to use gadget which aims at taking oral hygiene habits to a different level.
- Innospark – a company creating a unique lighting platform where human-centric lighting technology and nature inspired design merge together;
- Limap - companyprovidingmobilelaserscanning (MLS) services;
- Lokacijossitemos - company providing R&D for high accuracy indoor and outdoor positioning solutions to it’s clients;