The Virtual organizations Breeding Environment (VBE)
represents a long-term “strategic” alliance, cluster, association,
or pool of organizations that provides the necessary
pre-conditions for cooperation among their member organizations
and facilitates the fluid establishment of Virtual Organizations
(VOs) in response to the emerging collaboration
opportunities in the market/society (Camarinha-Matos and
Afsarmanesh 2005; Camarinha-Matos et al. 2008; Romero
et al. 2010).