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Towards the praxis of a sustainable knowledge‑based economy
Towards the praxis of a sustainable knowledge‑based economy

Author(s): Agnieszka Klimska
Subject(s): Economic development
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
Keywords: sustainable development; concept of knowledge-based economy; a sustainable knowledge-based economy;

Summary/Abstract: Various presentations of the current strategies for economic development increasingly stress the need to abandon the existing model of economy, its redefinition and the necessity to develop a new concept of knowledge-based economy (KBE). Consequently, knowledge is attributed an essential role in stimulating socio-economic development, including also sustainable development. The direction of changes designated by the development of knowledge-based economy, however, carries with it a number of challenges that must be dealt with and which are gradually being included in numerous sustainable development strategies. Similarly, implementation of certain visions of sustainable development generates the need to make specific assumptions, different from the guidelines defined for the mainstream economy (e.g. taking into account global modelling and system analysis or the law of entropy) (Czaja 2011: 164). Implementation of the preferred directions of development, requires not so much efficient, but proper management, i.e. one which would translate itself onto the plane of decision-making and, subsequently, that of application. Management processes, including management of sustainable development which draws on the principles of a knowledge-based economy, require also taking into account those factors that can really support the sphere of praxis and hence help to shape a knowledge-based society.

  • Issue Year: 14/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 169-187
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English