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Developing business ideas for drone technologies
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Giacomo Carli, Kristen Reid and Despoina Filiou. This week was written by Jie Deng and Giacomo Carli.

The development of this course was funded by the ICAERUS project [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The ICAERUS project was funded by the EU under the Horizon Europe scheme Grant Agreement 101060643 and UK under Innovate UK reference 10038181.

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Course image: Courtesy: Dr Katerina Kasimati

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Figures

Figure 3: Example of the technological components deployed in Use Case 2 (Anthymildis et al., 2023) Courtesy: Dr Katerina Kasimati

Figure 4: A Photo of a drone spraying Courtesy: Dr Katerina Kasimati

Figure 7: Graphic representation of flows in and out of the system (Barrionuevo, 2023) Adapted from Barrionuevo, B. (2023) D3.5: Report on Socio-economic and Environmental Impact, Version A.

Figure 8: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals https://sdgs.un.org/ goals

Figure 9: Common Good Matrix Publisher: Matrix Development Team April 2017. Authors: Manfred Blachfellner, Angela Drosg-Plöckinger, Susanna Fieber, Gerd Hofielen, Lutz Knakrügge, Manfred Kofranek, Sigrid Koloo, Christian Loy, Christian Rüther, Dominik Sennes, Regina Sörgel, Moritz Teriete.Editors: Angela Drosg-Plöckinger, Manfred Kofranek, Sigrid Kolo https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 4.0/ deed.en

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Video 1: Meet The ICAERUS Expert on Life Cycle Assessment: ©The Open University (2024)

Video 2: Life Cycle Assessment suggestions 1-4. ©The Open University (2024)

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