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Quantum Criticality Index: Understanding Critical Raw Materials Supply Chains in Quantum Technologies

Quantum Criticality Index: Understanding Critical Raw Materials Supply Chains in Quantum Technologies

The aim of this empirical Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology (RQT) Project is to develop and apply a data-based analytic methodology, focused on discovering vulnerabilities in Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) supply chains. Utilizing cutting edge computational informatics analysis techniques such as machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANNs), the Quantum Criticality Index (QCI) allows us to understand and anticipate potential risks in the progress of quantum technologies.
Stanford Quantum Incubator

Stanford Quantum Incubator

The Stanford Quantum Incubator (SQI) stands as a pivotal business catalyst, dedicated to advancing quantum technology development and adoption both regionally and nationally. At its core, SQI bridges the gap between academia and industry, fostering an environment ripe for much needed innovation and economic growth. Operating from the center of the emerging quantum startup scene, the Stanford Quantum Incubator helps galvanize and attract startups and university spin-offs in the quantum/AI space, in addition to the investment community (VCs, angels, incubators, accelerators, banks, funds) and other stakeholders who are part of the ecosystem (hardware/chip manufacturers, cloud, software, networks).
Quantum Impact Assessment

Quantum Impact Assessment

Impressive progress is being made on the development of quantum technologies, quantum artificial intelligence (QAI) and quantum-relativistic hybridized HPC approaches, to operate beyond classical supercomputing. It is exactly at this early stage that we need to think about the impact of these technologies when we still have the power to shape and direct these technologies effectively.
Quantum Technology Anticipator

Quantum Technology Anticipator

The mind-bending capabilities and societal implications of future quantum technologies are beyond human imagination, expanding the vistas of the mind. We do not yet know the biggest impact of quantum. The world should prepare for disruption caused by exponential quantum & AI driven innovation, taking a proactive stance. Anticipating governance tipping points, we must be agile.
Quantum SDG-Use Cases and Societal Beneficial Applications

Quantum SDG-Use Cases and Societal Beneficial Applications

It is crucial that the world prioritizes investments in quantum applications that actively support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Together with industry, this Project maps and promotes new quantum UN SDG-use cases and anticipates the societal impact of novel, state of the art quantum applications including quantum-AI hybrids across a wide range of fields, actively steering towards societal beneficial outcomes.
Quantum Technology, Intellectual Property and Fair Competition

Quantum Technology, Intellectual Property and Fair Competition

This Project examines the need for quantum-specific innovation policy mechanisms. In laypersons terms: are the intellectual property (IP), fair competition and antitrust systems functioning well in the US, EU, and Asia, or do we need incremental reforms and clarifications for quantum and hybrids, classical data and quantum information, as they are entering the global markets?
Regulating Quantum Technology

Regulating Quantum Technology

This research Project will perform a detailed study of how to sensibly regulate second generation (2G) quantum technology, unifying the world of the large with that of the small. It intends to answer questions on how our innovation architecture should be constructed, so that benefits of useful quantum computing, close by and large distance sensing, simulation, and communication/internet – including quantum-AI hybrids – will be distributed equitably, and risks proportionally addressed.
Handbook of Quantum Governance

Handbook of Quantum Governance

This Project involves research for and preparation of a Handbook of Quantum Governance. It is proposed that the Handbook shall provide a comprehensive survey of the key issues in the governance of quantum information technology. The Handbook aims to introduce diverse audiences to the multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary nascent field of quantum information technology governance.
Quantum Leap: Decoding Quantum Computing Innovation – Patenting Trends, Innovation & Policy Implications

Quantum Leap: Decoding Quantum Computing Innovation – Patenting Trends, Innovation & Policy Implications

This project, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the patent landscape in the emerging field of quantum computing, including quantum simulation. Anticipating the potential implications of quantum technologies in real-world products, commentators have started proposing governance and regulatory strategies, raising concerns, and suggesting policy recommendations focused on quantum technologies.
Quantum Hardware, Simulation & Education

Quantum Hardware, Simulation & Education

The Quantum Hardware, Simulation & Education Project aims to catalogue and boost responsible 2G quantum technology and engineering efforts. It evaluates three main elements. Distinguished from social sciences and humanities oriented RQT projects, this project studies the hardware behind quantum, how we can gain understanding of nature and utilize it for better processes and technologies. Young scientific advances are assessed on the dimensions of technology readiness, quantum intuitiveness, and quantum literacy.
Equipping Society for Responsible Quantum Innovation

Equipping Society for Responsible Quantum Innovation

The goal of this research project is to develop useful perspectives on how society can anticipate quantum technologies. Through philosophical and ethical analyses the societal implications of quantum computing in the near-to-medium-term are explored, with a particular focus on the threat that quantum computing poses to cybersecurity and the transition towards quantum-safe cryptography in response. Based on these analyses it is mapped what is needed for deliberate decision-making during the innovation process.
Building Global Capacity for Responsible Quantum Technologies

Building Global Capacity for Responsible Quantum Technologies

The second generation of quantum technologies (QT) promise a transformative wave of innovations with the potential to reshape industries, economies, and societies. Quantum applications in the making present myriad of opportunities and hold the potential to pave the way for a range of societal benefits aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many of the opportunities currently on the horizon seem particularly promising when considered from a truly global perspective.