In recent years, the aspect of trust in the context of inter-organizational relationship has deserved an increased attention from foreign scientists. The importance of investigation has been shown by a growing number of publications on the role of trust in international relations. The interest in this field of study, on the one hand, was determined by the changes in the business environment. The abundance of information, the appearance of network organizations, dynamics of environment conditions and the need for innovations lead the companies to a greater or smaller trust in business partners. Another reason lies in the positive effect of trust for successful interorganizational relationship. The trust in an organization also means trust in its people working in this organization. It affects the fact that the assesment of trust in business partners can be related to the highlighting of the aspects of psychology as well as behavior of the individuals. On the other hand, this evaluation may be related to the identification of the trust evaluation criteria (both in the level of individuals and organizations) and determination of the reasons of trust formation.

Insufficient business innovation activity in Lithuania shows a need to explore possible factors determining this state of play. It is assumed that lack of concrete and specifically targeted government actions or their efficiency is extremely important here. Thus, in order to analyse business innovation promotion in Lithuania, theoretical, strategic and statistical data are taken into consideration. This paper suggests the generalised theoretical system of business innovation determinants, analyses the statistics describing business innovation activity in Lithuania, and provides an assessment of the current Action Plan of Lithuanian Innovation Strategy for 2010–2020 from a business innovation promotion perspective.

Improving health conditions of population and development of effective health protection system is the main social target of sustainable development. An effective system for public health care aims to ensure adequate health care and improvement in population’s health status. However, investments in the health policy, improving the competencies of public health specialists, infrastructure development, the building of the communities’ health improvement capacities, etc., provide for different results in the Baltic Sea Region countries. Therefore, it is important to analyse the efficiency of health protection systems in the BalticSea Region and to define the main factors having impact on health status in specific countries. The aim of the presentation is to review health care resources and health protection systems’ impacts on the health status in Lithuania and other countries in the Baltic Sea Region.The main tasks in order to achieve this aim are:· To compare health care resources and state financing of health protection systems in Lithuania and other Baltic Sea Region countries;· To compare health indicators in Lithuania and other Baltic Sea Region countries;a· To define the efficiency of health protection systems in Lithuania and other BalticSea Region countries in terms of achievements in improving health status of the population;· To analyse Lithuanian health protection system and to identify the major gaps and drawbacks;· To discuss the results and findings.

The situation of SoDra (State social insurance) in Lithuania is very complicated, thus the Lithuanian Parliament, the Lithuanian Government, and all citizens of Lithuania are becoming more aware of the state of current and future pensioners that is in need of acute rearrangement. Furthermore, that fact is confirmed by the changes of the pension system reform launched on 1 January 2013. Lithuania’s economy is still largely affected by the economic crisis, but before the crisis the country did not build the base of traditions characteristic to the Western world. In the developed countries of Western Europe, when a child is born, a pension fund and life insurance contract is concluded. During this period from birth to death, a solid private sum of money is accumulated, which allows making a living and not changing the lifestyle one has been living until retirement. For instance, in Germany a state pension is about 1100 Euros, and a private one amounts to 4500-5500 Euros per person. Therefore, we can assume that the main source of living in elderly age is a private and not a state pension. On the contrary, in Lithuania the main source of living is a state pension. Though the Lithuanian government encourages long-term accumulation by introducing tax privileges for individuals who have signed their pension accumulation and life insurance contracts, this is not enough. The decrease of average earnings does not prompt the accumulation for the future, as simply there is no such amount available. Moreover, the increase of unemployment in the country and emigration are important factors as well. Thus, aiming for steady pension income shaping, economic and business growth and decrease of unemployment is necessary. No less important is education of the public to the effect that life at old age is highly dependent not only on the state’s contribution but also on each future pensioner’s personal contribution.