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The Open University

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

The Open University via OpenLearn

Overview

Are you a drone pilot looking to explore the opportunity of expanding your offering in the agricultural, forestry and rural sectors? Are you a student interested in knowing how drones can impact positively on agricultural sustainability? Maybe you know very little about drones but would like to experiment with them in rural settings?In this free course, Developing business ideas for drone technologies, you will develop a general knowledge and understanding of the drone industry, the emerging innovations in the sector and the different business models that involve the use of drones. Your knowledge will be complemented by content and activities to support the development of an innovative business idea involving the use of drones. Activities will include stakeholder mapping, analysis of the regulatory environment, design of a value proposition and of a business model appropriate for your idea, as well as consideration of sustainability aspects and of the industry ecosystem’s dynamics. The course will also offer the chance to develop practical and professional skills to articulate and communicate your business ideas to different stakeholders.TranscriptThe development of this course was funded by the ICAERUS project. The ICAERUS project was funded by the EU under the Horizon Europe scheme Grant Agreement 101060643 and UK under Innovate UK reference 10038181.  

Syllabus

  • 1 The ICAERUS project
  • 1.1 The five ICAERUS use cases
  • 2 The drone industry and its growth
  • 2.1 The drone industry lifecycle
  • 2.2 The incubation stage
  • 2.3 The Pre-Firm Takeoff and the Pre-Sales Takeoff stages
  • 3 Identifying and developing new business ideas
  • 3.1 Sources of ideas
  • 3.2 Identifying your idea
  • 4 The importance of stakeholders
  • 4.1 Internal and external stakeholders
  • 4.2 Primary and secondary stakeholders
  • 4.3 Using drones for crop health assessment
  • 5 End-of-course self-assessment

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