The Euro-South Hub Project aims to promote innovation and social enterprise in the Mediterranean region through a physical incubator in Siracusa, Italy and a satellite in Lampedusa, with a virtual incubator in Malta. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund from 2011-2013, the project developed a smart infrastructure to facilitate communication between the physical and virtual incubators to support the identification of innovative ideas, new collaborations, and complementary expertise. Data analysis of the infrastructure identifies clusters of members and their knowledge, influential individuals, potential innovators, knowledge gaps, and novel social and knowledge connections.

1. The Euro-South Hub Project Paola Monachesi and ElineWesterhout University of Malta

2. The Euro-South Hub project Goal Promote innovation and social enterprise in the Mediterranean Location Physical incubator in Siracusa with a satellite in Lampedusa Virtual incubator in Malta Use case Support sustainable restoration of old city centers and their tourism Funding European Regional Development Fund (2011-2013)

3. The Euro-South Hub infrastructure Goal Development of a smart infrastructure to facilitate communication between the physical incubator and the virtual one Supports Identification of innovative ideas Finding new collaborations Discovering complementary expertise Exploring the relation between physical and virtual worlds

4. The KIC model

5. How Natural Language Processing techniques: Term/Concept extraction Similarity measures Clustering algorithms LDA for topic detection Adopt Linked Open data Standards

6. Data Analysis Identify: How members cluster and their knowledge Who are the most dominant figures Who are the individuals in brokerage positions (i.e. potential innovators) Knowledge gaps Novel social and knowledge connections

7. Conclusions The Euro-South Hub communication infrastructuresupports: Technological innovation New collaborations by relying on the KIC model New concepts of physical space by analyzing the relation between physical and virtual dimensions