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Krzysztof Porwit’s article polemicizes with the thinking expressed in Antoni Kukliński’s article, saying that the new paradigm of associations between a KBE and a KBS is meant to apply to all aspects of the economy and society. The obstacles and conflicts in these associations are pointed out, and doubts are expressed about the rate of progress along the road to a KBE and KBS described in the article, creating a circle of progress and success. The article relates to Antoni Kukliński’s thesis about the reasons behind the stoppage of the development of a KBE in countries that are poorer than the countries of the European Union. In his article, Kukliński presents the chances of a remedy; but Porwit claims that first it is necessary to remove the causes of the malady by means of work from the very bottom - by means of an improvement to the institutional order and moral renewal. Only on such foundations is it possible to attain a high quality of formal-legal characteristics and institutional order.
Roman Galar’s paper relates to the basic thesis of Antoni Kukliński’s article, i.e. the trap of low-level efficiency equilibrium. While underlining the appropriateness of this diagnosis, he nevertheless undermines it by noting that cause-effect mechanisms operate on a different level. He offers his own interpretation for the causes of this “ low level” trap, pointing out, among other things, the dangers of copying institutional standards from “high level” countries, and suggests a solution to the problem by creating a network of social enclaves which the processes of creating a KBE may function safely. He supports the idea of forming a Society of Friends of a Knowledge-Based Economy, providing exhaustive arguments in its favour, and indicates the need for such a Society to explain what a KBE really means, because misunderstandings of the purpose of a KBE may discredit the entire idea of such an economy.