Thank you for this provocative article! I think collaboration also presumes a degree of freedom because to collaborate is a volunteer act and for me collaboration is a form of cooperation. Dillenbourg et al. make a distinction between cooperation and collaboration. They define cooperative work as"... accomplished by the division of labor among participants, as an activity where each person is responsible for a portion of the problem solving..." They define collaboration as "...mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve the problem together" Peter Gloor said “Collaborative Innovation Network is a cyberteam of self-motivated people with a collective vision, enabled by the Web to collaborate in achieving a common goal by sharing ideas, information, and work.” I think when we have an environment where we can share ideas we leverage creativity as it happens when we collaborate. To me cooperation is what we have when a group of consultants give their contribution as being part of a sum of contributions (disciplines or different work approaches) but they don’t share positive and negative issues. It is like to redesign a village after a big storm in separate rooms.