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The aim of this book is to focus on the role of sports technology and the way that the innovation process is managed. This will help understand how technology is developed and integrated into the sports context. This is important particularly due to rapid technological advancements developed in sport being applied to other industries. The book will focus on the different types of sports technology from increment to radical innovations, including looking at product, process, and service innovations. It will be one of the first books to specifically focus on sports technology and innovation. It will be useful to innovation management researchers and sports practitioners interested in how to compete based on technological advancements.

Sports --- Sporting goods --- Sporting equipment --- Sports goods --- Recreation --- Athletics --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- Technological innovations. --- Equipment and supplies --- Management. --- Sports-Economic aspects. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Sports Economics. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Industrial management. --- Sports—Economic aspects. --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Economic aspects.

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Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs. Recent research efforts have focused on the dynamics of communities and how they facilitate entrepreneurship among a diverse group of people and organizations. This book highlights research on the importance of communities and their role in providing an entrepreneurial ecosystem that promotes innovation and business activities. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, it explores what it takes to create an entrepreneurial community that fosters creativity. Sharing valuable insights, it will enhance readers’ understanding of how entrepreneurship is formed by and exists in communities. .

Entrepreneurship. --- Social service. --- Ethnography. --- Social Work and Community Development. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Economic sociology. --- Economic sociology --- Economics --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Social aspects

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Change is a part of any organization, but in order to compete in the globally connected business environment, organizations also need to incorporate an entrepreneurial focus. This book investigates how successful organizations have intelligently responded to change by utilizing creative, innovative and dynamic solutions. Pursuing a complexity theory approach, it analyzes the changes currently taking place, and discusses the optimal use of organizational resources. This provides the reader with a more cohesive way to assess the current and potential future challenges faced by organizations as they respond to environmental, social and economic changes.

Entrepreneurship --- Technological innovations. --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Entrepreneurship. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Economic sociology. --- Industrial management—Environmental aspects. --- Industrial organization. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Sustainability Management. --- Industrial Organization. --- Industries --- Organization --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Economic sociology --- Economics --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Management --- Organisation --- Social aspects

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"Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses are especially vulnerable. This is one of the first books that explicitly examines the linkage between crisis and entrepreneurship with specific focus on small businesses. The book adopts a holistic approach and outlines strategies which small business owners can utilize and, as well as, business opportunities that are available in these new market conditions. It also provides a comparative analysis of the current and future market conditions to enable a better understanding of how institutional structures can facilitate or hinder growth. The book also goes on to explain why and how creativity and innovation can help to mitigate the impact of such crisis on business and highlights why business continuity is especially crucial to family owned businesses. This timely publication will help to guide small business owners and entrepreneurs to maintain business continuity and build up their resilience in challenging business climate"-- Provided by publisher.

Small business. --- Businesses, Small --- Medium-sized business --- Micro-businesses --- Microbusinesses --- Microenterprises --- Small and medium-sized business --- Small and medium-sized enterprises --- Small businesses --- SMEs (Small business) --- Business --- Business enterprises --- Industries --- Size

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Entrepreneurship --- Entrepreneurship. --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators