Identifying sport Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Championship Approach

The purpose of the present research is identifying and ranking the entrepreneurship opportunities with the championship sport approach in the sport industry. The research was qualitative strategically, based on content-analysis by operational and developmental purpose. The statistical society includes all professors, graduates and university students in different fields of study such as physical education and sport science, the organizational managers with research or administrative expert in the area of championship sport and sport events and familiar with entrepreneurship basics and also are entrepreneurs in the field of championship sport that by purposeful sampling in total 32 people participated in semi-structural interview to come theoretical saturation in Delphi method in (5) times. The research tools were established coding sheets instruction that their validity confirmed by the college specialized and experts and entrepreneurship, say, content-validity and the tools reliability (coding sheets) determined by help the coefficient of agreement between the coders i.e. PSCAT coefficient (95%). By recognizing the 174 entrepreneurship opportunities in six sub domain and their ranking, the results shown that income and commercial activities, sport club activities and talent-discovering were at first to third rank for sub-domain, respectively. Low-cost for business start, high-capacity for innovation and employment, create the stable develop, high-diversity in business time and place are the characteristics that we can find it by research the opportunities and human resources in sport (graduates and athletes) can enterprise in appropriateness with their capability.