Laser & Engineering Technologies cluster LITEK
Published on 08 April 2019
Lithuania
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About this good practice
LITEK cluster has strong connections with more than 50 companies and 10 RTOs working in fields of opto-electronic components, including optical materials and lasers and more than 80 companies working in engineering sector. LITEK has 'Research and training center' with laboratories, clean-rooms & offices.
Laser & Engineering Technologies cluster LITEK provides a variety of services: perform designing, experimental production and testing high power and energy laser systems, fiber lasers; carry out prototypes, modeling services; develop technologies for multi-layer coating for optical components; provide flat optics and crystal polishing services and other photonics and/or engineering sector related activity.
Details of support services:
• Facilitating the links between industry-academia in the fields of laser technologies and photonics, optoelectronics
• Providing access to Open Access infrastructure: industrial workstations for mass and small batch production with short pulse solid state and fiber lasers, workstations for research and development with nano and pico second solid state lasers
• Internationalisation: organizing cluster missions, participating in international consortia, networks.
Laser & Engineering Technologies cluster LITEK provides a variety of services: perform designing, experimental production and testing high power and energy laser systems, fiber lasers; carry out prototypes, modeling services; develop technologies for multi-layer coating for optical components; provide flat optics and crystal polishing services and other photonics and/or engineering sector related activity.
Details of support services:
• Facilitating the links between industry-academia in the fields of laser technologies and photonics, optoelectronics
• Providing access to Open Access infrastructure: industrial workstations for mass and small batch production with short pulse solid state and fiber lasers, workstations for research and development with nano and pico second solid state lasers
• Internationalisation: organizing cluster missions, participating in international consortia, networks.
Resources needed
One person responsible for process facilitation which costs are approx. 10.000 Euro annually (part-time position).
Evidence of success
Missions since 2011: 21 mission to 14 foreign countries.
Events since 2011: 22 presentations of success story.
Partners since 2011: 17 partners in LITEK cluster.
Projects since 2011:LASER-GO GLOBAL: Global Development of the European Strategic Partnership in Photonics for Health, Grant Agreement number 783420 LASER-GO –GLOBAL-COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01 (H2020, Cosme).
LASER-GO: Creating and Developing the Strategic Cluster Partnership in Photonics for Health, COS-CLUSTER-2014-3-03 (H2020) etc.
Events since 2011: 22 presentations of success story.
Partners since 2011: 17 partners in LITEK cluster.
Projects since 2011:LASER-GO GLOBAL: Global Development of the European Strategic Partnership in Photonics for Health, Grant Agreement number 783420 LASER-GO –GLOBAL-COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01 (H2020, Cosme).
LASER-GO: Creating and Developing the Strategic Cluster Partnership in Photonics for Health, COS-CLUSTER-2014-3-03 (H2020) etc.
Potential for learning or transfer
LITEK cluster was able to create the extremely strong inner (personal) trust among cluster companies and its personnel which is a prerequisite for a successful cluster operation. Geographic proximity is a very important condition here as well.
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Organisation
Laser & Engineering technologies cluster (LITEK)
Lithuania
Contact
Innovation consultant