Fund Development

Economic Development

In an increasingly competitive world, highly visible industries offer a differentiator in proud cultures. Sport offers a promising psycho-social effect to rally passionate citizens and local corporate investors. The sports industry, its investors, and local governments now have a path to leverage excitement from the field or pitch directly to larger trade and investment strategies.

Sports economic development is a well established tourism category. Many local government offices attempt to attract sporting events to better utilize sports facilities and to alternatively fuel business community taxation activities such as event facility fees, event permits, sales and lodging tax. Sadly, sports tourism is a hit or miss strategy with dozens of competitors, it requires extremely long project lifecycles, and often need seed investments which may never mature.

Sports innovation is a secondary, complimentary, and often more challenging sports category based on entrepreneur-led economic development. This economic development category is measured through local business creation and job growth. Essentially, a well development sports innovation ecosystem has a multiplying effect for sports tourism. Together, the two categories attract new investments impacting workforce or job growth and new business development.

People Development

Workforce Certificates

Investment Funds

Asset Accreditation

If you’re a regional authority building a strategy to attract high-tech or digital businesses to compliment your current sports district or sports assets, we invite you to partner with our organization to benefit your citizens.

Our network consists of sports industry leaders who often consult with municipalities, recreation offices, and national trade organizations to support strategies vital for the development of a holistic high-tech skills approach designed to attract sports investments for innovation zones, creative districts, or sports assets. Sports innovation development is essential for todays sports business and future tourism efforts.

We help align:

Sports & Entertainment Communities
Entrepreneur-led Economic Development Policies
Investment Fund Development
Quantitative Research Strategies

Benefits

Workforce Development

Investment Development

Why Choose us?

We are the largest sports technology trade network consisting of regional technology associations, economic development offices, tourism executives, research institutes, university faculty, and highly successful entrepreneurs. With Olympic, professional, collegiate, and youth experiences – we understand what attracts investments and drives excitement for maximum returns.

Lets develop your brand

We bring the whole weight of the global sports technology sector along with numerous other entertainment disciplines with us when we land in your county, city, or state. Sport is a massive industry and any workforce development strategy will require high-tech skills from creative, hospitality, and sports sectors.

We train innovators how to train other innovators, we educate entrepreneurs about the complex global sports industry, we standardize and certify individual skills and local workforces. Add us to your strategy.

Culture means everything

We help our partners attract sports investments while offering exciting entrepreneur-led economic development within your community. No two communities are the same, your local sports culture is unique. That’s why our team believes in open or closed innovation in custom strategies for every partner.

Let us help your organization develop long term sustainable plans starting with engineering, science, and medicine as vessels to impact traditional sports, esports, motorsports, and outdoor sports. Together, we will develop the next generation of new companies and new opportunities.

How we grow communities?

Municipalities need practical roadmaps to develop key metrics that impact sports & entertainment investments. Our partnership will ensure a workforce transition dedicated to the needs of modern sports organizations. The trade association and its partners will transition your existing sports zone, digital district, or innovation hub into a successful economic profit center using the visibility and appeal formed by sport. Don’t leave sports technology and sports innovation off the table…

Ask about our policy drafting, legislation advisory, trade regulation, market development, and investment opportunities offered by the worlds largest sports technology trade association.

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