This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2022, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2022.

The 55 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions.

They provide a comprehensive overview of major challenges and recent advances in various domains related to the digital transformation and collaborative networks and their applications with a strong focus on the following areas related to the main theme of the conference:

Sustainable collaborative networks

Sustainability via digitalization

Analysis and assessment of business ecosystems

Human factors in collaboration 4.0

Maintenance and life-cycle management

Policies and new digital services

Safety and collaboration management

Simulation and optimization

Complex collaborative systems and ontologies

Value co-creation in digitally enabled ecosystems

Digitalization strategy in collaborative enterprises’ networks

Pathways and tools for DIHs

Socio-technical perspectives on smart product-service systems

Knowledge transfer and accelerated innovation in FoF

Interoperability of IoT and CPS for industrial CNs

Sentient immersive response network

Digital tools and applications for collaborative healthcare

Collaborative networks and open innovation in education 4.0

Collaborative learning networks with industry and academia

Industrial workshop