ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship and innovation are currently thriving as buzzwords around the world. Individuals, organizations, and communities seek to create the next best product, service, or model of success. At the same time, entrepreneurship has been said to create opportunities for people at the “bottom-of-the-pyramid” (i.e., in the lowest income-earning areas of the world) and build both social and economic values for underrepresented and marginalized groups and individuals – which is essential in times of and post COVID-19. With the influx of development initiatives internationally, including the proliferation of sport for development and peace (SDP) organizations and initiatives, this chapter unpacks the broad ways in which SDP offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship (in varying forms) to take place through and within sport.
First, the chapter briefly conceptualizes entrepreneurship and innovation, with a particular focus on social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Second, the parts and chapters within this book are summarized, with emphasis placed on varied ways that social entrepreneurship and innovation are discussed in relation to SDP, including in terms of process and across levels of the individual, community, and regions. The chapter concludes by highlighting how the book offers a resource for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in the SDP sector interested in social entrepreneurship and innovation.
