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Developing business ideas for drone technologies
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Acknowledgements

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

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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2.1 Application template: ICAERUS Innovation and Capacity building in Agriculture Environmental and Rural UAV Services. PULL Open Call for Farming, Forestry and Rural Challenges (FFRC) Proposal template. Funded by The European Union.

Figures

Figure 3: adapted from Hill, C. W. L., Schilling, M. A. & Jones, G. R. (2020) Strategic management: Theory & Cases: An integrated approach, 13th edition. Hampshire: Cengage Learning

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Figure 5: Courtesy: Adrien Lebreton

Figure 6: adapted from Schön, D. (1983) The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Basic Books.

Videos

Video 2: The Secret to Successfully Pitching an Idea | The Way We Work, a TED series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hVIH3EnlQ Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - Creative Commons

Video 3: Mackenzie Baert © The Open University (2024)

Video 4: Mackenzie Baert ©The Open University (2024)

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