Dutch and French Cooperation in Quantum Innovation

Florian Carrière Director

Rogier Verberk
Director of the Quantum Technologies at
the Netherlands Organization for
Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

Three questions to Florian Carrière and Rogier Verberk

The French and Dutch governments have recently committed significant sums to the quantum field (€1.8 billion and €615 million respectively), and wish to mobilize additional resources through a new partnership. In the presence of Cédric O, French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy, and Mona Keijzer, Dutch Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on August 31st, 2021 with the aim of strengthening collaboration in quantum innovation between the two countries. Florian Carrière, Senior Manager at Wavestone, and Rogier Verberk, Director of the Quantum Technologies, Semiconductors, Industry 4.0 program at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), discuss the scope of this agreement, which aims to compete with the giants of the quantum field – the United States and China.

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At the end of August, France and the Netherlands signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their bilateral cooperation in quantum technologies. Both countries are already making significant efforts in quantum research. What do they each expect from this MoU?

About Institut Montaigne

Independent think tank, Institut Montaigne, is a platform for reflection, proposals and experimentation concerning French public policies.

Wavestone regularly leads debates and writes articles with the institute. Here, for example, with Quantum Computing.

In June 2021, Institut Montaigne organized a series of webinars between public players, academics, industrialists and start-ups on the subject of quantum computing in order to identify the concrete levers to reinforce the initiated dynamics. Find our article here in French