Introduction and guidance
Welcome to Developing business ideas for drone technologies, a free badged course which lasts 8 weeks with approximately 3 hours’ study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study.
In this free course you will develop an initial view of the drone industry, looking at the evolution of the industry and the potential market opportunities available. The aim of this course is to present the potential for business development in the drone industry. You will look at recent developments and the latest industry data before identifying opportunities for your own drone business idea.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- understand the drone industry and the emerging innovations in the sector
- understand business models, with application of drone technologies
- identify and collect relevant information to develop evidence to support the development of a new business idea
- evaluate the economic, social and environmental impact of new business idea, considering its sustainability
- articulate and professionally communicate a new business idea to different stakeholders.
Moving around the course
In the ‘Summary’ at the end of each week, you can find a link to the next week. If at any time you want to return to the start of the course, click on ‘Full course description’. From here you can navigate to any part of the course. Alternatively, use the week links at the top of every page of the course.
It’s also good practice, if you access a link from within a course page (including links to the quizzes), to open it in a new window or tab. That way you can easily return to where you’ve come from without having to use the back button on your browser.