user1123 summarizes the situation best:
"Huge corruption at all levels drives talented people out of the country (or destroys their potential by preventing it from unfolding) and how cancer erodes us over the years. No new innovation strategy will change the substance until thieves and scammers go to jail. Only free, quality and easily accessible education may secure future achivements, but as we can see, Lithuania is on the opposite path, where studying is becoming a luxury. "