With Internet being used by companies, the concept of virtual company is commonly used to describe the fact that companies rely more and more on IT. The main issue of this paper is to assess the effecti- veness of this concept by an empirical study of 357 french companies. We attempt to...

This research notes aims at assessing the research policy in the knowledge management field conducted by the EU during the last decades. this article highlights the results from this research but also points out the lacks of this research program.