Quantum research gets funding boost
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EPSRC's Professor Philip Nelson: "Investments help science push at the boundaries and make discoveries that are taken through into innovations."
UK tech investment is about to get a £204m boost, according to the Science Minister Jo Johnson.
The money is to be split into two parcels: one to help develop graduate skills, specialist equipment, and other facilities; and a second to target quantum technologies research.
The minister made the announcement in a meeting at the University of Oxford this morning where he met academics working on Networked Quantum Information Technologies (NQIT), the Quantum Technology Hub, and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.
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