Call for innovation projects in quantum technologies: collaborative industrial research and support for entrepreneurship | Part 4: Collaborative innovation projects of two or more companies (including at least one SME or startup)
“Québec. Ministère de l’Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie”
$1,000,000.00
Maximum Eligible Amount
Government Grant
Fund Type
This component is intended for companies that conduct collaborative research projects in quantum technologies involving at least one SME or one or more startups.
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).
- Ensure the development and consolidation of innovation efforts in the field of quantum technologies.
- Strengthen the technological innovation capacity of businesses and materialize technology development and transfer through economic spinoffs.
- Contribute to positioning Québec as a leader in the development of quantum technologies.
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