The Future of the Drone Economy

Stakeholders—government officials, regulators, drone companies, corporate adopters, and investors—must understand how the drone landscape is evolving if they want to expand the current uses of the technology and create and capture additional value.

To date, many market forecasts for drones have been overly bullish; moreover, many predictions of drones’ transformation of our skies have been overhyped. The economic opportunity for drone technology is large, but stakeholders must consider the tethers of regulatory uncertainty, technological barriers, and community acceptance that ground it.