Influence of Socio-economic determinants on the active involvement of agents implementers of Social Innovation : the Case Study of VàZapp ' in Apulia region

In this paper, we develop a novel discriminant framework, which allows to integrate the socio-economic determinants of the potential beneficiaries in the SI into the discrimination process. Specifically, we formulate the socio-economic characteristic of all the participants to social events organized by VàZapp’ as a variant two-stage discriminant framework to capture the users’ characteristics as well as their latent social connections. The experimental results on real-world data could show that our method can effectively predict the active participation of agent’ implementers in the social innovation. Moreover, estimation will allow to perform different groupings within VàZapp’ community, depending on the degree of active involvement in innovative cooperation activities.