Web intelligence for measuring emerging economic trends: the drone industry — 2022 edition - Produits Statistical working papers

The ‘Web Intelligence for Drones’ project targeted the development of a method to retrieve information from the web on businesses based in EU countries that have their main activity in the sector of civil unmanned aerial systems (UAS) also known as ‘drones’. The study presents a novel methodology and the tools developed to identify drone companies through the web and to extract company-relevant information from their websites. The method was developed with a perspective of generalisation in mind (across countries and across economic sectors) wherever possible. It has already been fully applied to three European countries (Spain, Italy and Ireland), and the results are presented in this report.