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Regional development analyses are often affected by simplifications coming from heuristic reasoning. It is assumed that the Lower Silesia region has the highest growth rate since 2005 due to proper configuration of growth factors. But this hypothesis is false when one takes into account persistent high unemployment rate and low employment, average innovativeness, increase in interregional disproportions and low domestic demand due to slow increase of households' disposable incomes. Author tries to identify real sources of the Lower Silesias economic growth.