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Information Technologies
as a Pillar of a Knowledge-
Based Economy
Some Remarks
Joanna Kalkowska, Hanna Wlodarkiewicz-Klimek,
Edmund Pawlowski, and Stefan Trzcielinski
INTRODUCTION
THe lISbon STraTegy ImporTance
At present, one of the most important factors of socioeconomy development as well as improvement
of competitiveness became an enterprise’s transformation into requirements of knowledge-based
economy. The enterprises are searching for competitive advantage concerning quality of products,
manufacturing costs, time of launching products, and application of modern information technolo-
gies (IT). To achieve this, rst of all, enterprises nee ...