Introduction

Welcome to Week 8, the final week of Developing business ideas for drone technologies. This week you will draw on your learning from the past seven weeks to develop a concise written summary and presentation of your business idea. You will learn some tips in effectively communicating your idea to a range of stakeholders and hear from ICAERUS partners on good practices for pitching an idea. Figure 1 shows the learning cycle for Week 8.

Learning cycle divided into four parts – subjects, skills, example and outputs.
Figure 1 Week 8 learning cycle

By the end of Week 8, you should be able to:

  • understand the key elements of effective communication with different stakeholder groups
  • create a cohesive summary of your business idea and a pitch to share with stakeholders
  • reflect on your learning in this course and identify next steps for taking your business idea forward.