The development of CoP could help companies to share ideas, trade or
innovate with new ideas. They can also operate across the clusters in such areas as
training or workshops. Communities of interest are likely to be a feature of clusters of
the future, and indeed many industries are taking steps to encourage this process
through the creation of virtual enterprise networks or centers of industrial
collaboration [DTI 05]. Organization culture and its knowledge management system
play an important role in promoting community interaction. These will be discussed
further in our methodology.