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Creative students, professional teachers and inventive researchers are the essence of KTU liveliness. The possibilities for their self-expression are provided via effective infrastructure development, creation of environment open for communication and knowledge exchange, and fostering culture of high quality research. KTU aims to provide exceptional possibilities for talented and motivated students, teachers and researchers. The University aims to attract world-class researchers, who are ambitious to conduct high level inter-field and interdisciplinary research. KTU encourages its researchers to constantly expand their knowledge and skills, and to take part in global knowledge networks. KTU researchers contribute to the world-class research results, therefore the University guarantees the financial possibilities for the researchers, who achieve excellency in research; there are various initiatives aimed to strengthen the leadership competences in KTU. The quality of research is ensured by the world-class researchers being in research management positions. All vacancies in the academic and administration positions are announced publicly. KTU Career and Education Centre and the Doctoral School consult the young doctors on their career possibilities or other employment possibilities if they change a direction of their career. KTU National Innovations and Entrepreneurship Centre encourages entrepreneurship of the researchers, offering them to join the first Lithuanian academic startup incubator KTU Startup Space.

Establishment of R&D&I-based companies

The University has the first local academic startup incubator KTU Startup Space. Its main objective is the incubation of the early stage startup teams while transforming their ideas into prototypes.

  • Business model search
  • Business idea validation
  • Intellectual property protection
  • Business plan preparation
  • Competition environment analysis
  • Forecasts and financial flows calculation
  • Team building
  • Prototype development
  • Prototype validation
  • Investment offer preparation
  • Investment attraction and drawing up of investment contract
  • Intellectual property protection
  • Use of financial engineering instruments
  • EU and other funds’ subsidies attraction
  • Strategic planning and management
  • Communication strategy
  • Significant increase in the amount of sales and/or users
  • Attracted investments and/or increased sales revenue
  • Vertical and/or horizontal market expansion
  • Intellectual property protection, patenting
  • Investment offer preparation
  • Investment search
  • EU and other funds’ subsidies attraction
  • Development strategy preparation
  • Search for suppliers and customers, signing of the contracts
  • Development strategy implementation
  • Export share increase
  • International sales
  • Intellectual property protection, patenting
  • EU and other funds’ subsidies attraction
  • Strategic planning and management
  • Business partners’ involvement
  • Investment project preparation

KTU Startup Space
Studentų St. 67, LT-51392 Kaunas
phone +370 641 11 191

KTU answering to the needs of the international academic community and contributing to the dissemination of knowledge, provides possibilities to the researchers from around the world to publish their research results in KTU scientific journals. The Editors in Chief of the journals – KTU researchers ensure the scientific level and quality of the journals by publishing scientific articles on the important issues of the scientific community. Most of KTU scientific journals are indexed in the global scientific citation indexing services Web of Science and Scopus. To ensure the dissemination and visibility of the research, the journals are open access publications available on Open Journal Systems. Scientific articles are peer-reviewed in accordance with The Guidelines for the Peer Review of Scientific Articles Published in Scientific Journals of Kaunas University of Technology.

Currently KTU publishes following journals: