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Guest Post: How One of Europe’s Smallest Countries Became NATO’s Precision Photonics Capital
Guest Post by Aktyvus Photonics Lithuania is becoming NATO’s precision photonics capital because it has what almost no one else does: 60 years of laser science, and companies fast enough to move at the speed the technology demands. Lithuania is NATO’s most exposed border, where precision photonics is a defence need for the country, not […]
Lithuania is becoming NATO’s precision photonics capital because it has what almost no one else does: 60 years of laser science, and companies fast enough to move at the speed the technology demands. Lithuania is NATO’s most exposed border, where precision photonics is a defence need for the country, not a market opportunity. That combination has built a cluster of 60+ companies and thousands of specialists in Vilnius,…
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