Developing business ideas for drone technologies
Skip contents

Contents

  • Introduction and guidance
    • What is a badged course?
    • How to get a badge
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 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 This week’s quiz
  • 6 Summary of Week 1
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Do farmers use business models?
  • 2 Business ideas and business models from the first ICAERUS open call
  • 3 Business model types
    • 3.1 Product business model
    • 3.2 Solution business model
    • 3.3 Matchmaking business model
    • 3.4 Multi-sided business model
  • 4 Sustainable business models for the use of drones in agriculture
  • 5 Value capture and revenue models
    • 5.1 Razor and blade revenue model
    • 5.2 Freemium revenue model
  • 6 Bringing business and revenue models together
  • 7 This week’s quiz
  • 8 Summary of Week 2
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Data and policy – an emerging relationship
    • 1.1 Complex data sets of drones
    • 1.2 The Five Vs of big data
    • 1.3 Domains and technology – BDAFs in context
  • 2 Drone policies and regulations
    • 2.1 Maximising flexibility
    • 2.2 The EASA and drone regulations in Europe
      • 2.2.1 Rural logistics in North Macedonia
      • 2.2.2 Livestock monitoring in France
      • 2.2.3 A complex regulatory environment
    • 2.3 Information on relevant civil drone regulations
  • 3 This week’s quiz
  • 4 Summary of Week 3
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The business model canvas
  • 2 The value proposition canvas
    • 2.1 The customer profile
      • 2.1.1 Customer jobs
      • 2.1.2 Customer gains
      • 2.1.3 Customer pains
    • 2.2 The value map
      • 2.2.1 Products and services
      • 2.2.2 Gain creators
      • 2.2.3 Pain relievers
  • 3 Design a value proposition canvas
    • 3.1 Design a value proposition
    • 3.2 Present a value proposition
  • 4 This week’s quiz
  • 5 Summary of Week 4
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The customer area
    • 1.1 Customer segments
    • 1.2 Customer relationships
    • 1.3 Channels
    • 1.4 The Drone Spraying Use Case
  • 2 The value proposition canvas
    • 2.1 Evaluate a value proposition
    • 2.2 The fit of a value proposition
  • 3 This week’s quiz
  • 4 Summary of Week 5
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The infrastructure area
    • 1.1 Key resources
    • 1.2 Key activities
    • 1.3 Key partners
    • 1.4 Designing the infrastructure area
  • 2 The financial viability area
    • 2.1 Cost structure
    • 2.2 Revenue streams
    • 2.3 Designing the financial viability area
  • 3 The sustainability area
    • 3.1 Eco-social costs
    • 3.2 Eco-social benefits
  • 4 Piecing the canvas together
  • 5 This week’s quiz
  • 6 Summary of Week 6
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Ecosystems in business and management
    • 1.1 Business interactions and ecosystems
  • 2 Ecosystems: using drones for livestock management
  • 3 Drone use for sustainable livestock management in rural France
  • 4 Drone-driven ecosystems for sustainable livestock management in rural France
  • 5 Ecosystem attributes: knowledge
  • 6 Ecosystem attributes: innovation
  • 7 Ecosystem attributes: entrepreneurial
  • 8 Ecosystems embedded in networks: network relational dimension
  • 9 Ecosystems embedded in networks: network structural dimension
  • 10 Networks: structural characteristics and benefits
  • 11 This week’s quiz
  • 12 Summary of Week 7
  • References
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Introduction – the why
    • 1.1 Communicating effectively with different stakeholders
  • 2 The elevator pitch
    • 2.1 Creating your own elevator pitch
    • 2.2 Developing your elevator pitch
  • 3 Demonstration activities
  • 4 Reflecting on your learning and identifying next steps
  • 5 Creating an action plan
  • 6 Summary of Week 8
  • 7 This week’s quiz
  • 8 Course conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

ou logoCreative Commons non-commercial share alike icon Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence

Please see full copyright statement and terms of use for more details.