Small and medium-sized enterprises in the development of the Lithuanian regions

Development of modern enterprises largely depends on the skills to compete on the market. Innovation is often a necessary condition so that the company could function at all on the market. The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the development of the districts of Lithuania. The article discusses the research results that represent the situation of smes in the districts of Lithuania in the period 2002–2010, on the basis of the data of the Department of Statistics of Lithuania. The article includes with statistics and graphical interpretation of individual groups of data. Most attention has been devoted to the discussion of the innovation of enterprises and the relationship with the created gross domestic product by SMEs in the districts