however the strategy was never actively implemented the ministry of economy took action in to revise this strategy with the help of external assistance but the revised strategy was never approved it recognised that lithuania already possessed some of the prerequisites for developing its rd system such as pockets of highlevel research potential for industryrelevant applied research some hightechnology products and researchintensive services reaching european innovation practice for scienceindustiy collaboration increasing gross expenditure for rd gerd to and business expenditures for rd berd to and increasing hightech share of gross domestic product gdp to by in seven years were the ambitious yet in retrospective highly unrealistic objectives set in the strategy