As startup communities grow and strengthen, business accelerator programmes are becoming an increasingly common tool for growing businesses. For insights into the design of such programmes, what determines their success and their impact on technology start-ups, this autumn's final conference of the international accelerator programme Fast Forward Europe, held in Poland, "How to accelerate regional economies?" also invited Lithuanian representatives. Vaiva Kelmelytė, project expert at Kaunas Science and Technology Park (Kaunas STP), shares the highlights of the conference.