VENICE: Virtual enterprises nurtured using intelligent collaborative environments

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 97.0441

Key words (English)

Virtual enterprise; business competencies modelling; competencies database

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: UR4005

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 1.1 Information technologies

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Université de Lausanne
Institut d'Informatique et Organisation INFORGE

Partners and International Organizations (English)

University College London, University of Jyväskylä, SQ Consulting Ltd (FIN), Federation of Finnish Metal, Engineering and Electrotechnical Industries (FIMET) (FIN) WTCM (B), Iberconsult (P)

Abstract (English)

In today's economy national and international partnerships are becoming more and more important. These partnerships range from very loose trading relationships on common project to very strong ones as in virtual enterprises, where several companies join together to combine their competences in order to finalize successfully a project. Hence, finding suitable and reliable partners becomes a crucial matter whenever the right match of competences is required that goes beyond the ones possesed by one sole organisation. The usual approach to choose partners from a pool of already 'known by us' companies leaves aside a large part of unknown, but perhaps better suited companies. This situation is especially harmful for SMEs who do not have enough visibility to be included in the list of possible candidates, thereby excluding them from new openings and possibilities.

In order to try and contribute to solving this issue, UNIL role in the VENICE project was to support these new processes by providing a toolkit to help organisations:

1. specify their own competences and enter them easily in a Competence Database,

2. search in the Competence Database for potential partner organisations with a specific set of competences

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 97.0441