Don’t be penny-wise and pound-foolish. That, in a nutshell, is the advice of experts whose new report urges the UK government to make some necessary investment and regulatory moves in UAV activity today in order to avoid missing out on the economic bounties that drone activity of tomorrow will bring.
The study was produced by UK think tank The Entrepreneurs Network, which looked into ways of fully exploiting the economic potential of the nation’s future drone activity that some estimates value at $57.2 billion by 2030. Among the main recommendations was for the government to appoint an actual or de facto “Minister of Drones” to focus exclusively on the development and expansion of the UAV-centered economy. The second marquee proposal was to rapidly invest in technology and networking assets to make all recreational and commercial drones “electronically conspicuous” to one another.
By doing that, the organization’s “Digitise the Skies” report…
