COOPERATION OF ACADEMIC AND BUSINESS INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORETIC ASPECT

The article analyzes the cooperation of scientific institutions and business subjects, its course and promotion, as recently in Lithuania the number of support and promotion programs of innovations in this area has been rapidly growing. During the last years when the endeavours at long-term and effective promotion of economics with the help of innovations have been put, the cooperation of science and business is becoming an especially topical topic of researches together with the tests on its usefulness. The various contracts, even interstate, on the cooperation of science and business to promote the creation and implementation of innovations have been made. The article analyses the cooperation possibilities between the business subjects and scientific institutions (not only universities, but also colleges and various other scientific institutes, business parks and valleys) and reviews the cooperation process, which results in creation and implementation of innovations. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15544/ssaf.2012.0