Building a Knowledge Share Culture in a Virtual Organization. Case Study for VRL-KCiP NoE Anca Draghici, George Draghici Politehnica University of Timisoara, Integrated Engineering Research Center, Timisoara, Romania {adraghici, gdraghici}@eng.upt.ro Abstract The knowledge-sharing culture is a type of organizational culture in which knowledge, in all its diversity and representations, is willingly made avail- able and effectively utilized for realizing the mission and goals of the or- ganization. The increasing attention given in the last years to knowledge management in organization, in particular to the valuing of the role of knowledge-management practices in creating a rich information know- ledge environment, infrastructure and resource for learning, has also gen- erated considerable discussion centering on how effective knowledge management might be enabled, and how a knowledge sharing culture might be established. In the following, we discuss some important aspects for building the knowledge sharing culture in a virtual organization and we shall debate the case of the Virtual Research Laboratory for a Knowledge Community in Production (www.vrl-kcip.org). The main aspects of the discussion are: (1) From Individual Knowledge to the Organizational Knowledge. The Case of VRL-KCiP; (2) Building a Knowledge Sharing Culture in the VRL-KCiP NoE Organization; (3) Knowledge creation process – the core of building the VRL-KCiP knowledge-share culture; (4) Final Comments and Conclusions. 1. Introduction Recent research has focused more on implementing knowledge manage- ment in organizations, which identify knowledge as a new weapon in competitive wars (Fahey and Pusak 1998). The value of knowledge can be