by Geoff Sherman On Tuesday afternoon (June 18), before heading to Victory Field to work for Major League Baseball at the Indianapolis Indians vs. Iowa Cubs series opener, I headed downtown to the offices of High Alpha for a special event related to the USA Swimming Olympic Trials taking place right now in Lucas Oil… Read more »
by The SII Team During the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend, the IU Indianapolis Sports Innovation Institute, in conjunction with the School of Informatics, presented a panel on Sports Analytics featuring recent alumni working in the sport industry. Four graduates joined us to discuss how they got their job in sports analytics, what the industry looks… Read more »
Sports Innovation Journal Special Issue: Innovations in Engaged Learning in Sport, Tourism, and Live Entertainment The intention of this special issue of Sports Innovation Journal is to support academic discourse regarding engaged learning practices in sport, tourism, and live entertainment education. As a result, this work encourages thought and dialogue related to innovative practices, academic… Read more »
Sport management is not an academic discipline or profession that many associate with the field of design. However, over the past 7 years, I have used design thinking as the set of mindsets and methods in my senior capstone class in sport management at Indiana University Indianapolis.
Mike Karnuta, Senior Vice President of Business Development for the Indiana Sports Corporation, believes in the mission of IU Indianapolis’ Department of Tourism, Events, and Sports Management (TESM). Karnuta works with a variety of faculty and students to stage mock interviews, teach adjunct courses, volunteer as a career panelist, create opportunities for graduate assistants and interns,… Read more »
by The SII Team On March 4-5, the IU Indianapolis Sports Innovation Institute and the Monon Development Group collaborated to develop creative and innovative concepts that could be included when it opens in March 2023. Students from the School of Informatics, School of Computer Graphics Engineering, School of Health and Human Sciences, and others came… Read more »
by Kevin Feller, B.S. Sports Management 2018, and Laura Klaum, M.A. The Sports Innovation Institute, along with the NCAA and the Indiana Sports Corporation, recently staged an Innovation Sprint for IUPUI students studying sports management, human computer interaction, and computer graphic technology.
by The SII Team In a cross-university collaboration, the IU Indianapolis Sports Innovation Institute engaged in a design innovation sprint with Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, IN in the fall of 2019. Twelve sport management students from three universities set out to answer the question “How do we use sport and physical activity to… Read more »
by Corey Elliott, B.A. Journalism, 2015 Silicon Valley is the cradle of innovation for high-tech businesses, computer technology and social media platforms. With the help and vision of entrepreneurs Jordan Fliegel and Andrew Hippert, Indianapolis may soon be the Silicon Valley equivalent of the sports tech industry.
