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Table 2 QUTAC Stakeholder Assessment: QUTAC will make important contributions by providing an industry and application perspective to ecosystem stakeholders

From: Industry quantum computing applications

Ecosystem Stakeholder

QUTAC Contribution

Hardware solution provider/component supplier

• Guidance on high-value use cases, reference problems and their business impact

• Reference problems and benchmarks for assessing competitiveness of approach

• Direct or indirect customer for future products

Software solution provider

• Assess the suitability of abstractions, frameworks, and services for industry problems

• Guidance on end-to-end application workflows including both quantum und classical steps

• Reference problems and benchmarks

Research institution and program (e.g., Hubs, DLR, Fraunhofer)

• Guide application-centric research with reference problems and benchmarks

• Collaborative research and industrialization

• Joint ventures and spin-off opportunities

Investor

• Assess the viability of different approaches based on well-defined industry problems

Policy maker

• Industry perspective for current and future research programs

• Assess the viability of different approaches based on well-defined industry problems

• Reduce investment risks by early assessment of transfer opportunities

• Develop a multi-perspective research landscape across all stakeholders

• Explore new policies that increase ecosystem collaboration and time-to-market

QUTAC member

• De-risk through pre-competitive collaborative research

• First-mover and competitive advantage for early access to technology

• Explore potential business opportunities in the quantum ecosystem