Call for innovation projects in quantum technologies: collaborative industrial research and support for entrepreneurship | Part 3: Innovation projects in partnership with a public research center

“Québec. Ministère de l’Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie”

$1,000,000.00

Maximum Eligible Amount

Government Grant

Fund Type

Part 3: Innovation projects in partnership with a public research center This component is intended for companies that have research projects in quantum technologies with an eligible public research center (formerly a member of QuébecInnove).

Call for innovation projects in quantum technologies: collaborative industrial research and support for entrepreneurship

The call for innovation projects in quantum technologies is aimed at Quebec companies wishing to carry out an innovation project resulting from research and development in the following fields:

Quantum computing (which includes but is not limited to the development of quantum computers, quantum software, quantum computer programming languages, quantum algorithms, quantum simulations as well as supporting technologies essential to the development of quantum computers [e.g. microfabrication, refrigeration, photon manipulation]);
Quantum communication (which includes but is not limited to quantum cryptography, quantum internet and quantum networks, using the principles of quantum photonics, with multiple applications including security and defense as well as storage and information processing);
Quantum materials (which includes, among others, the development or simulation of new materials with innovative quantum properties);
Quantum metrology and sensing (which includes, among others, the development of innovative devices based on quantum principles and particularly quantum photonics, or applications for precisely probing, measuring and manipulating quantum properties of matter or photons).

Proposed projects should contribute to the development and commercialization of:

quantum computer and quantum communication components;
quantum technologies that fall within the following (non-exclusive) fields of application:
- life science (which includes, among other things, quantum simulation tools for the design of new drugs that potentially support or complement artificial intelligence, as well as the development of innovative materials for medical applications),
- sustainable development (which includes, among other things, the development and use of devices such as quantum detectors for the detection of mineral deposits),
- transport and logistics (which includes, among other things, the design of new innovative materials for vehicles or for aeronautics, as well as quantum simulation tools for optimization in logistics and supply chains in support or complement to artificial intelligence).

Part 3: Innovation projects in partnership with a public research center

Call for innovation projects in quantum technologies

Eligible projects

Eligible projects are those that promote research in quantum technologies in partnership with an eligible public research center (formerly a member of QuébecInnove).

They are divided into two categories depending on the size of the companies participating in the project:

SME projects : involve at least one Quebec SME with 250 employees or less and having R&D or production activities in Quebec as well as at least one university, college center for technology transfer (CCTT) or public research center;
Large company projects :involve at least one Quebec company with more than 250 employees and having R&D or production activities in Quebec as well as at least one university, a CCTT or a public research center.