Quantum Tech Government Programs

Introduction

Global government programs and their funding for quantum tech programs is hard to track. While there are many official announcements, these often fail to include the totality of local efforts as they are spread across a multitude of agencies and institutes. Also, they do not detail what has been spent versus allocated, and as such are a guideline at best.

Unlike other overviews, we track the actual projects by agency and institute for a number of countries, leading to a much different, and generally better funded, picture than commonly assumed. Below, we present published as well as proprietary data on federal quantum tech funding.

A look at how these funds are geographically distributed.

A look at how these funds are being allocated by quantum tech application.

Proprietary data on select national programs, including actual spent, is available upon request.

Conclusions

Funding for quantum tech is global, long term, sustained and diversified. In fact, one of the most coordinated and well resourced national programs post-war. While North America holds a strong hand when it comes to national programs, China must be considered the leader both in depth as well as funding their efforts. Regions like Australia, Japan, India and Israel have unusually strong programs. And the European continent, led by the UK and Germany, can rightfully claim a top spot due to the amount of resources spent and the strength of basic research and science.

January 30, 2023