What does Government need to do to get the UK’s world leading quantum technology research into starts-ups, scale-ups and global industry?
The SITC’s inquiry into commercialising quantum technology has heard impressive and even startling evidence about its applications in areas as diverse as the fight against climate change, against dementia, and against the deaths from breast cancer – but it has also posed a big question.
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How do you support and translate recognised, world-leading academic research and knowledge into something that “breakthrough” businesses feel they can invest in?
That bigger businesses feel they can begin to translate at the commercial scale; that exporting businesses feel they can offer onto the world stage?
That can create global competitive advantage for the UK in a cutting-edge field with huge potential for commercial, economic and societal benefits?
Evidence through the inquiry has pointed to the need for the right kind of Government intervention, at the right scale and at the correct point in the development process - designed to minimise the need for that public intervention.
How can Government instead enable the transfer of supportive functions and finance into the commercial and industrial sectors that will be making these technologies functional at scale?