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AXIS B – Scientific and economic spin-offs

The mission of this axis is to stimulate the socio-economic and scientific spin-offs of quantum technology research, with a dual objective:

1. to develop new scientific and industrial applications for quantum technologies;
2. to encourage, train and support DIM players in their efforts to promote quantum technologies.

Identifying use cases for other scientific fields and industry

Sciences. The QuanTiP DIM will work to identify possible scientific spin-offs in three stages:

• To identify the communities to be brought together, the DIM will rely on its scientific committee and Copil, as well as on the national or European structures in which they participate (SFO, LabEx FIRST-TF, International Association of Geodesy…).
• Meeting days between QuanTiP and these scientific communities will be organized, to introduce scientific issues and define common languages, as well as collective reflection sessions on emerging themes.
• The creation of a collaborative “Interfaces” AAP to support the exploration of these new avenues.

Industry. QuanTiP will participate in the emergence of these use cases and the identification of strategic issues by bringing together academia and industry at Research/Company days on a specific topic (e.g. mechanical sensors). QuanTiP will act as an identified point of contact for companies, informing them about quantum issues, directing them towards the training courses on offer in the Paris Region (notably at the Paris-Centre and Paris-Saclay quantum centers), suggesting partnerships, and involving them in DIM activity presentation days. The DIM will also set up a “QuanTiP Club” of partner companies to provide a forum for exchanges.

Support for development and industrial transfer initiatives

Support tools :

Contacts, advice, coaching. The Paris region benefits from a dense network of innovation support services (SATT, incubators, competitive clusters, FrenchTech-type associations) and, as part of the national strategy, is being enriched by new structures such as Le Lab Quantique, a QuanTiP partner association which already organizes conferences and MeetUps. The Valorisation office will be responsible for guiding new innovators through this ecosystem. QuanTiP will also coordinate the creation of a personalized coaching and mentoring group to support new projects.

Call for prematurity projects. QuanTiP will support prematurity with flexible calls for projects. The aim will be to identify with project leaders what support is best suited to the stage of their project: small equipment and/or an engineer’s salary for pre-prototyping stages, funding for entrepreneurship training, preparation for patent filing, and so on. Flexibility of tools is essential here. The jury for these calls for projects will be made up of a member of the axis office and players from the technology transfer sector (SATT, incubator, etc.).

Awareness-raising and training. An innovation awareness day will be organized each year, in a format that enables exchanges between researchers, entrepreneurs and innovation players, has proved its effectiveness and will be repeated. A residential entrepreneurship training seminar will be organized each year. It will be led by an innovation professional and open to around twenty participants. The training will include formal courses, workshops with real-life situations and meetings with entrepreneurs.

Figure 6 : Single-photon sources. Photo: Quandela.

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