The talk about innovation ecosystems presented by Liudas Mikalkevicius (Louis Mikal) in Vita Scientia 2016 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

1. Innovation Ecosystems
Liudas Mikalkevicius
VitaScientia 2016
@mikallouis louism@kaufr.com

2. We need more people who try

3. What is innovation?

4. ● Baras
● High tech bio
● Taxi e-service

5. Innovation is about making
something better than others do
• Marketing
• Business model
• Product
• Delivery
• Customer service
• Etc.

6. Who is an en-tre-pre-neur?
● “a person who starts a business and is willing to
risk loss in order to make money” - Merriam
Webster Dictionary
● Someone who likes challenges and knows her
passion
● A rebel

7. ● Someone who sells garbage
bags to other businesses
● Someone who creates a night
club on the campus
● Someone who sells music
records ordered by mail

8. ● Someone who sells garbage
bags to other businesses
● Someone who creates a night
club on the campus
● Someone who sells music
records ordered by mail

9. Conclusion:
We need more people who try

10. Even if you have:
● A better way to distribute chemicals
● High quality branded solutions
● A cleaning service for equipment
● A faster way to do Western Blot
● A new scientific journal idea
● Etc.

11. What is an ecosystem?
● “the complex of a community of organisms and
its environment functioning as an ecological
unit” - Merriam Webster dictionary

12. LT among others
● Early stage startup ecosystem
● Business culture only maturing
● Great infrastructure

13. What needs to be done
● People exchange
● Public awareness
● Encouragement
● Fail and Success sharing

14. What needs to change
● Perception of innovation
● Perception of an entrepreneur
● Understanding of sales
●
Buyers' mentalityBuyers' mentality

15. How to get there?
We need more people who try

16. Special thanks to