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The Open University

Developing business ideas for drone technologies short course

The Open University via OpenLearn

Overview

PLEASE NOTE: This course will be closing soon, to be replaced with a free, 24-hour badged course. This course will be removed from OpenLearn on Monday 13 January 2025. Please make sure you have finished studying the course by then.  The new, badged course will be published in the coming weeks. When published, the new course can be found at the following link: Developing business ideas for drone technologies.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 an initial view of the drone industry, looking at the evolution of the industry and the potential market opportunities available. You will look at recent developments and the latest industry data before identifying opportunities and potential for your own drone business idea.The 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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