Knowledge sharing and cooperation between communities of practices: a possible scenario ?

Communities of practices (CoPs) bring high value to product and process innovation in the actual context of economic depression and enable the development of small and medium enterprises. We aim to contribute to the improvement of their value promoting an integrated model based on vSa and DKMF models finalized to promote the knowledge transfer among community members of cooperating CoPs. The model enables to generate new knowledge and to amplify innovative cooperation when the governance effort in planning community development finds an equilibrium with structural characteristic of meta-CoP emerging from cooperating CoPs. The model is expected to help with needs of next organization scenario: big projects collecting activities shared between many actors and emerging complex social systems based on networking.