The Innovative and Entrepreneurial Nature of Sport: A Critical Assessment

Abstract

[...]sport entrepreneurs must be able to develop leadership qualities that influence all the stakeholders with whom they interact, as well as exercising transformational leadership able to take on board participants and supporters for successful exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. [...]sport entrepreneurship can help organisations to position themselves better in the market, in order to achieve and maintain their competitive advantages. [...]there is a latent need to develop a policy oriented to better understanding of the social and economic factors that stimulate sport entrepreneurship. According to the most recent tendencies of the so-called eclectic theory of entrepreneurship (Audretsch et al., 2015), sport policy should be thought out and implemented eclectically, as the necessary trigger to promote entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystems that combine the social, environmental, financial, public, private, business and individual dimensions.