Abstract

Quantum computing is the subject of significant hype as an emerging technology. Governments around the world are looking to encourage innovation in this domain in coordination with the private sector. Commercialising these technologies involves the input of both domestic and international capital. Taking the case of Denmark, this presentation begins to examine how capital flows into quantum computing forms a site of politics and creates international interdependencies in the Danish innovation ecosystem.

Short Bio

George Salter is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University. He studies the International Political Economy (IPE) of technological innovation with a focus on science-intensive sectors such as quantum computing. He is broadly interested in both the micro and macro dynamics unfolding in the collision spaces between states and globally dispersed technology markets. Animated by perspectives from IPE, organisational sociology, and innovation studies, the core question guiding his work is who creates value from science, how, and why, and where is it captured?

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