Sports Innovation Technology And Research

Author : Dominic F L Southgate
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1786340437
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Innovation, Technology and Research written by Dominic F L Southgate and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports Innovation, Technology and Research gives an insight into recent research and design projects at Imperial College London. It presents the on-going development of a diverse range of areas from elite rowing performance to impact protection to sporting amenities in communities. Also included are descriptions of some of the latest innovations that have been developed as part of the Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge, an initiative that tasked engineering students to design, build and implement Paralympic and other sporting equipment. It offers a glimpse at the breadth of creativity that can be achieved when human centred design is applied to an area such as disabled sport. It also shows the potential that design and engineering have to contribute to healthy lifestyles and the generation of whole new sporting domains. This book will be valuable for anyone with an interest in sports technology, including those in industry, academia, sports organisations and athletes themselves.

Author : Vanessa Ratten
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319750461
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Technology and Innovation written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, enthusiasts and sports practitioners interested in how to compete based on technological advancements.

Author : Vanessa Ratten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351712004
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Innovation Management written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to emerging issues of sport innovation. The book focuses on the role of innovation in the sports context and how we can leverage opportunities that arise from networks and optimize resources by identifying where they are most effective. It helps to identify the conditions and procedures that emergent business ventures need to be formed. The book is a useful reference for sports organizations, athletes and government organizations promoting the use of innovation to generate competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

Author : Vanessa Ratten
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030294587
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport Entrepreneurship and Public Policy written by Vanessa Ratten and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the traditional general approach to sport policy by adopting an entrepreneurial perspective. The respective chapters, all written by recognized experts, link a fragmented collection of treatises on entrepreneurship, public policy and sport entrepreneurship to develop a coherent, unified perspective on policy-making. The book’s central argument is that, while in the past, sport policy focused more on governance and political elements, these aspects can also be embedded into a ‘policy entrepreneurship’ perspective. To date, most sport policy research has also tended to pursue an organizational behavior or political science approach. Breaking with that trend, the book incorporates the nascent sport entrepreneurship literature into this approach. The new strategies proposed here offer valuable resources for public policy planners and sports managers alike, two groups who need to work together to build better policy initiatives.

Author : Sascha L. Schmidt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030508013
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Sports written by Sascha L. Schmidt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years, and provides food for thought concerning what lies further ahead. Presented as a collection of essays, the authors are leading academics from renowned institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge, and practitioners with extensive technological expertise. In their essays, the authors examine the impacts of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and robotics on sports and assess how they will change sport itself, consumer behavior, and existing business models. The book will help athletes, entrepreneurs, and innovators working in the sports industry to spot trendsetting technologies, gain deeper insights into how they will affect their activities, and identify the most effective responses to stay ahead of the competition both on and off the pitch.

Author : AJ Subic
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780632055630
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engineering of Sport: Research, Development and Innovation written by AJ Subic and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-08-02 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports engineering is an interdisciplinary subject, which encompasses and integrates not only sports science and engineering (including biomechanics, physics and other subsections of general science), but also much broader issues that are of paramount importance to developing and implementing new sports technology. This book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in sports technology and the latest contemporary developments from the perspective of both industrial practice and academic research. It brings together the work of researchers from Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa under the following four headings: Sports Engineering, Design and Sports Technology, Enabling Knowledge and Advanced Analysis Techniques.

Author : James Skinner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319786229
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fostering Innovative Cultures in Sport written by James Skinner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing the trends that are emerging in sport enterprises such as advancements in technology and social media, the authors of this illuminating book tackle the issue of how to create new opportunities in such a changing industry. Providing valuable reading for sports business scholars, this book draws on examples from inventive companies as well as inspirational sports leaders and illustrates the various drivers behind innovation. Addressing the need for a culture of innovation within sports enterprises, the authors reveal sustainable ways for companies to stay ahead of the game in an increasingly competitive global sport market.

Author : Megan Chawansky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429647441
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovations in 'Sport for Development and Peace' Research written by Megan Chawansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational organizations and practitioners who use sport for international development often position sport as a unique option for tackling development challenges. While sport can be a tool for social change, the authors in this collection bring a critical eye to this assumption and offer new perspectives on the use of sport for development and peace (SDP) in local and global contexts. The book seeks to generate new dialogues and explore linkages for development and SDP researchers through considerations of sport’s potential to challenge and/or perpetuate key global issues and problems. These analyses consider the SDP work done ‘on the ground’ and interrogate the historical, social and political circumstances of these practices. The authors explore how best to examine, theorize, critique and potentially improve local SDP initiatives. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of both Development Studies and Sport. It was originally published as a special issue of the online journal Third World Thematics.

Author : Rayvon Fouché
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421798
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Changer written by Rayvon Fouché and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has technology challenged the notion of unadulterated athletic performance? We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouché argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouché dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the athlete with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment, or the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect. In this revealing book, Fouché examines a variety of sports paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes, and racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also takes a hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug testing, and the athlete biological passport in an attempt to understand the evolving place of technoscience across sport. In this book, Fouché: • Examines the relationship among sport, science, and technology • Considers what is at stake in defining sporting culture by its scientific knowledge and technology • Provides readers and students with an informative and engagingly written study Focusing on well-known athletes, including Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance Armstrong, Fouché argues that technoscience calls into question the integrity of games, records, and our bodies themselves. He also touches on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of technology, from elite soccer's initial reluctance to utilize goal-line technology to automobile racing's endless tweaking of regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur engineering potency and reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports—and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.

Author : Peter Smolianov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135075697
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport Development in the United States written by Peter Smolianov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United States, a global sporting giant with a unique, market-driven sporting landscape. Presenting an innovative model of integrated sports development, the book explores the inter-relationship between elite and mass sport across history, drawing on comparative international examples from Australia to the former USSR and Eastern bloc countries. At the heart of the book is an in-depth empirical study of three (traditional and emerging) sports in the US – tennis, soccer and rugby – that offer important lessons on the development of elite sport, methods for increasing participation, and the establishment of new sports in new markets. No other book has attempted to model sports development in the United States in such depth before. Therefore this should be essential reading for all students, researchers, administrators or policy-makers with an interest in sports development, sports management, sports policy, or comparative, international sport studies.