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.    

• 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