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Many multinational organisations support work collaborative practices like virtual functional or project teams within cross-border business. Cross-border knowledge transfer within virtual teams or communities may face an extra challenge of cross-cultural hurdles. In this paper, after a short presentation of virtual teams and communities and the problem of cross-border transfer in this context, some methods and tools for achieving intercultural competence and tools supporting knowledge transfer as well as activities of an on going European innovation transfer project about Lifelong learning in SMEs are given.
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Hamburg, I. (2011). Supporting Cross-Border Knowledge Transfer through Virtual Teams, communities and ICT Tools. In: Howlett, R.J. (eds) Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2010. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20508-8_3
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