form of organisation

Collaborative engineering communities are one way for an internet-based-support for various actors working on a single engineering task. E-Cluster can serve as an organisational form for collaborative engineering communities. Both, member and intermediaries are highly committed to an E-Cluster. This paper examines chances and risks for a combination of collaborative engineering communities and E-Cluster. Investigations based on personnel, finance, trust, organisation, and technology issues support the proposition that E-Cluster can be used as a form of organisation for collaborative engineering communities.