KEEN News Articles.
Trip to Investor Day 2021 (UK) for assistant radiologists and start-up developing sustainable raw materials
Ideas to Innovation (i2i) program, which started in Lithuania last year and was organized by KEEN together with KTU and MITA (Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology) empowered by Cranfield University colleagues, has gathered participant in one more exciting event “Deploying Ideas 2 Innovation: The Pitching Contest”. It revealed the authors of the best business ideas. Best pitch winner start-ups will introduce themselves to investors at the annual Investor Day 2021 event in the United Kingdom. Read more here: MITA
Ideas to Innovation (i2i) program, which started in Lithuania last year and was organized by KEEN together with KTU and MITA (Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology) empowered by Cranfield University colleagues, has gathered participant in one more exciting event “Deploying Ideas 2 Innovation: The Pitching Contest”. It revealed the authors of the best business ideas. Best pitch winner start-ups will introduce themselves to investors at the annual Investor Day 2021 event in the United Kingdom. Read more here: MITA
Representatives of Cranfield and Cambridge universities were surprised by the business ideas being developed in Lithuania
What to do for a researcher with scientific knowledge and an idea that, if commercialized, would solve a global problem or create a high value-added product? "First of all, the question that needs to be answered, is entrepreneurship for me?", Says Orsolya Ihasz, a lecturer at Ideas to Innovation (i2i) and a researcher at Cranfield University.
Cooperation between science and business is inevitable
Cranfield University researcher Orsolya Ihasz with fellow entrepreneur prof. Shai Vyakarnam and Cambridge University researcher, entrepreneur dr. Liisa Van Vliet July 15-17. conducted 3 days of virtual training. Intensive training for the first time in Lithuania was organized by KTU, KEEN together with the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) according to the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) program developed by experts from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their goal is to inspire researchers and provide the knowledge needed to commercialize an idea. Read more here: MITA
What to do for a researcher with scientific knowledge and an idea that, if commercialized, would solve a global problem or create a high value-added product? "First of all, the question that needs to be answered, is entrepreneurship for me?", Says Orsolya Ihasz, a lecturer at Ideas to Innovation (i2i) and a researcher at Cranfield University.
Cooperation between science and business is inevitable
Cranfield University researcher Orsolya Ihasz with fellow entrepreneur prof. Shai Vyakarnam and Cambridge University researcher, entrepreneur dr. Liisa Van Vliet July 15-17. conducted 3 days of virtual training. Intensive training for the first time in Lithuania was organized by KTU, KEEN together with the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) according to the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) program developed by experts from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Their goal is to inspire researchers and provide the knowledge needed to commercialize an idea. Read more here: MITA

Rethinking Business Models for a Sustainable Future.
Value is at the heart of the business model for every venture. How value is created, delivered and captured defines the growth and long term success of a business. So what it is that we should better understand about value and how could we develop a deeper understanding of value to create new economic, social and environmental benefits in this time of transformation.
Read more here: StartupLithuania
Value is at the heart of the business model for every venture. How value is created, delivered and captured defines the growth and long term success of a business. So what it is that we should better understand about value and how could we develop a deeper understanding of value to create new economic, social and environmental benefits in this time of transformation.
Read more here: StartupLithuania

CH-EU Success story: Empowering the MIT of the Baltics
The KEEN project supports Kaunas University of Technology in becoming an entrepreneurial R&I excellence hub. KEEN aims to improve KTU’s exploitation and dissemination of research outputs and to enhance the Lithuanian University’s ability to engage the public in its research and entrepreneurship awareness and understanding. KEEN further involves the University of St Gallen (Switzerland), Cranfield University (United Kingdom) and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).
Please read full article here: SwissCore
The KEEN project supports Kaunas University of Technology in becoming an entrepreneurial R&I excellence hub. KEEN aims to improve KTU’s exploitation and dissemination of research outputs and to enhance the Lithuanian University’s ability to engage the public in its research and entrepreneurship awareness and understanding. KEEN further involves the University of St Gallen (Switzerland), Cranfield University (United Kingdom) and the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany).
Please read full article here: SwissCore

KEEN Success Story
“Lithuania’s KTU has the potential to be the MIT of the Baltic region,” says Dr Charlotta Sirén, Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen’s Global Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and a member of KEEN consortium. “Combining the technical skills of the project partners with cutting-edge entrepreneurial best practices could really set KTU up to become a future startup hub.”
To provide KTU with these best practices, the University of St Gallen is partnering with a university in the UK and one in Germany in the Horizon 2020 Twinning project
“KEEN” (Knowledge-Empowered Entrepreneurship Network). Through collaborations, Twinning aims to strengthen a specific field of research in an emerging institution. KEEN’s goal is to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Lithuania. “St Gallen is known for high-impact entrepreneurial research and KTU has a strong background in technical research – a perfect combination,” explains Sirén. “KEEN will have a huge impact on the startup scene in Lithuania.”
Please read full article here: EUResearch
“Lithuania’s KTU has the potential to be the MIT of the Baltic region,” says Dr Charlotta Sirén, Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen’s Global Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and a member of KEEN consortium. “Combining the technical skills of the project partners with cutting-edge entrepreneurial best practices could really set KTU up to become a future startup hub.”
To provide KTU with these best practices, the University of St Gallen is partnering with a university in the UK and one in Germany in the Horizon 2020 Twinning project
“KEEN” (Knowledge-Empowered Entrepreneurship Network). Through collaborations, Twinning aims to strengthen a specific field of research in an emerging institution. KEEN’s goal is to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Lithuania. “St Gallen is known for high-impact entrepreneurial research and KTU has a strong background in technical research – a perfect combination,” explains Sirén. “KEEN will have a huge impact on the startup scene in Lithuania.”
Please read full article here: EUResearch