Future of Business and Finance / 21st Century Sports

I. Introduction.-  How technologies impact sports in the digital age.- Taxonomy of sportstech.- How Thesis Driven Innovation Radars could benefit the sports industry.-  II. Physical Technologies.- Robotics, automation, and the future of sports.- Robotics and AI: How technology may change the way we shape our bodies and what this does to the mind.- The reach of sports technologies.- The future of additive manufacturing in sports.- The current state and future of regenerative sports medicine.- III. Information Processing Technologies.- Big Data, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing in sports.- The data revolution: Cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the future of sports.- Blockchain: From fintech to the future of sport.- The rise of Emotion AI: Decoding flow experiences in sports.- IV. Human interaction technologies.- Strategies to reimagine the stadium experience.- Virtual reality & sports: The rise of mixed, augmented, immersive, and esports experiences.- Video games, technology, and sport: The future is interactive, immersive, and adaptive.- V. Final.- Impossible sports.- Beyond 2030: What sports will look like for the athletes, consumers and managers.

Sascha L. Schmidt is a Professor of Sports and Management at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Dusseldorf, Germany, an affiliate of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, and a member of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School. He serves as Director of the WHU Center for Sports and Management and as Academic Director of the SPOAC - Sports Business Academy by WHU. His research and writings focus on growth and diversification strategies as well as future preparedness in professional sports.

"Schmidt's edited collection inspires readers to reflect on a variety of ways in which sports technology may impact sports in the future. This is the high point of the anthology. From our reading, we would recommend this book to students and scholars in the field of sports management with an interest in sports technology." (Siv Stavang Aune, Anne Tjønndal and Stian Røsten og Sigbjørn Børreson Skirbekk, idrottsforum.org, May 25, 2023)