What is the cluster for?

Cluster is a voluntary partnership between businesses and other entities/organisations. Cluster activities are based on cooperation between organisations in a wide range of fields ranging from resource sharing to the development of common products and innovations. The areas to which cluster players focus their activities and for which members are stronger on the market can vary:

Information and communication

Cooperation

Providing of training and further training

Innovation and technology

Joint marketing

International development, partnership with other clusters

Lobbying

New products

All these activities are carried out by clusters with the aim of increasing their competitiveness, making the value chain more efficient, creating higher added value products or connecting to international MTEPI networks.

Members of the national Food Economics Cluster produce innovative products of higher added value mainly from Lithuanian raw materials, co–operate with Lithuanian scientists. The main objectives of the cluster shall be the development of food technology and the pursuit of greater competitiveness, innovation, partnership between the members of the cluster and entrepreneurship of the Lithuanian economic industry.