Functionalities for the foundation and management of strategic collaborative networks

This asset allows the management of long-term strategic collaborative networks (i.e. VBEs – Virtual organizations Breeding Environments), provides detailed information about each member, and manages the inclusion of new members or removal of members. This includes management of collaboration network profiles, values, com-petences, products and services. The GloNet platform organises the profile in dossiers which contain a clear view of the details of each member partner in the network. It in-cludes a functionality to assess the level of alignment of value systems of network members. Another feature of this asset includes the trust management functionality, which supports the selection of the most suitable partner within the network for a spe-cific contribution. The trust management functionality offers a semi-automated as-sessment of the trust level of organisations. The mechanisms implemented to support the rational assessment of trust level are based on mathematical equations represent-ing inter-relations and inter-influences among trust criteria and on qualitative criteria. Expected Value: This asset offers services to manage the membership of the long-term strategic networks, including profiles and competencies management, value sys-tems alignment, and assessment of trustworthiness of potential members. It also sup-ports the definition of roles and rights of the various members of the network.