(Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu - National-Louis University ; Oficyna Wydawnicza "Rewasz", 2007) Pawłowski, Krzysztof
The article presents the case of a town with sizeable location-specific challenges. During the
1990’s the town experienced spectacular economic successes, and is now preparing for a giant
technological and civilisational leap forward on the basis of EU funding. It is difficult to estimate
the long-run effects of this new initiative: only to ponder whether the effects will be huge or truly
massive. The town, its authorities and WSB-NLU innovators decided to transform Nowy Sącz into
the first Polish town of knowledge and undertake competing on the global scale.