“…shared facilities layout, equipment that is used to manufacture/offer products and/or services, etc.) (Romero et al 2007a(Romero et al , 2008b; (2) ICT resources -as entities characterising the ICT equipment, software and infrastructures used/shared in the VBE , Romero et al 2007a, 2008b, Rabelo and Gusmeroli 2008; (3) human resources -available in the VBE, namely in terms of their competencies, profile, potential roles that they can perform, etc. (Camarinha-Matos and Afsarmanesh 2007b, Romero et al 2007a, 2008b); (4) information/knowledge resources -as entities including the information and knowledge repositories that are shared by the VBE members (Romero et al 2007a(Romero et al , 2008b; and (4) ontology resources -as entities representing the main (common) ontologies 1 used in the VBE and that facilitate the mutual understanding among the VBE members (Afsarmanesh and Ermilova 2007, Plisson 2007, Romero et al 2007a, 2008b.…”