Developing an Industry-Inspired Academic Research Center to Address the Opportunities Created by the QUANTUM LEAP Big Challenge

发展受行业启发的学术研究中心，应对 QUANTUM LEAP 大挑战带来的机遇

• 批准号: 1748685
• 负责人: Anthony Boccanfuso
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University Industry Demonstration Partnership
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-01 至 2018-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1748685&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Industry; Inspired; Academic; Research

Developing an Industry-Inspired Academic Research Center to Address the Opportunities Created by the QUANTUM LEAP Big Challenge Workshop is a high impact, results oriented event that explores the private sector?s interest in partnering with academic institutions in the recently identified NSF Quantum Leap Big Challenge priority area. The workshop will bring together a strategic set of academic and corporate researchers, technology strategists, and thought leaders who possess the required skills and complementary experiences to (a) effectively evaluate the research and commercialization opportunities presented by the NSF Quantum Leap Big Challenge and (b) identify effective approaches to garner substantive industry engagement resulting in the creation of an industry-inspired academic research center. Quantum Leap, advances quantum technologies of the future: quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum sensors, quantum simulators, and potentially others. The powerful language provided by quantum mechanics almost a century ago becomes the foundation upon which to build new industries. This process, sometimes called "the second quantum revolution", is marked by the development of practical and marketable solutions for quantum technologies. To ensure that the Big Ideas initiative has impact, NSF must work with universities as its traditional audience and encourage active collaboration with industry to transform the discoveries created at universities into meaningful products to benefit society.The Strategic Issues track will identify leading technology development issues, listing the top major fields within second-generation quantum technology and the Quantum Leap challenge that most interest industry and ideally, motivate them to share their most pressing research needs in areas such as quantum communication or computing. The Tactical Issues track will identify various issues with creating a compelling NSF program that is structured to maximize industry engagement and investment and deliver longer term impact by addressing the highest priority needs. To achieve these goals, several proven techniques will be employed. a) Survey Instrument: Workshop attendance is limited to ensure for a productive discussion; however, additional voices can provide insights into the workshop?s strategic and tactical issues. The UIDP will employ a web based survey to allow for broader information gathering; the results will be shared with attendees in advance of the actual workshop and use these survey results to shape the discussions.Technical thrust prioritization. Through the Big Issues initiative, NSF seeks to identify where to invest its resources to have the most impact. This workshop provides the NSF a vehicle for gathering specific recommendations in the Quantum Leap arena, and the UIDP proposes using the Heilmeier Catechism to initiate these discussions on the technical priority areas. Finally, this workshop will produce a report that identifies priority research and commercialization thrusts within the Quantum Leap big challenge and identifies strategies for organizing an industry-inspired, academic research center(s) (involving multiple universities) that will attract meaningful external support ? from industry and government ? and be focused on concrete commercially and societally relevant goals. Ideally, the participating companies will also share insights into their high priority technical challenges and use the envisioned center to pursue answers to these matters.

发展一个受行业启发的学术研究中心，以应对 QUANTUM LEAP 大挑战研讨会所创造的机遇，这是一项具有高影响力、以结果为导向的活动，旨在探讨私营部门在最近确定的 NSF Quantum Leap 大挑战中与学术机构合作的兴趣优先领域。 该研讨会将汇集一批战略性的学术和企业研究人员、技术战略家和思想领袖，他们拥有所需的技能和互补的经验，以 (a) 有效评估 NSF 量子飞跃大挑战带来的研究和商业化机会，以及 (b) ）确定有效的方法来获得实质性的行业参与，从而创建一个受行业启发的学术研究中心。 Quantum Leap 推进了未来的量子技术：量子通信、量子计算、量子传感器、量子模拟器以及其他潜在技术。近一个世纪前量子力学提供的强大语言成为构建新产业的基础。这一过程有时被称为“第二次量子革命”，其标志是实用且适销对路的量子技术解决方案的发展。为了确保大创意倡议产生影响，国家科学基金会必须与作为其传统受众的大学合作，并鼓励与工业界积极合作，将大学创造的发现转化为有意义的产品，造福社会。战略问题轨道将确定领先的技术开发问题，列出了第二代量子技术和量子飞跃挑战中最受业界关注的主要领域，理想情况下，激励他们分享量子通信或计算等领域最紧迫的研究需求。战术问题轨道将通过创建引人注目的 NSF 计划来识别各种问题，该计划旨在最大限度地提高行业参与度和投资，并通过满足最高优先级的需求来产生长期影响。 为了实现这些目标，将采用几种经过验证的技术。 a) 调查工具：研讨会出席人数有限，以确保讨论富有成效；然而，其他声音可以为研讨会的战略和战术问题提供见解。 UIDP 将采用基于网络的调查来收集更广泛的信息；结果将在实际研讨会之前与与会者分享，并使用这些调查结果来形成讨论。技术重点优先顺序。 通过“重大问题”计划，美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 寻求确定将资源投入到何处以产生最大影响。 该研讨会为 NSF 提供了在量子飞跃领域收集具体建议的工具，UIDP 建议使用 Heilmeier Catechism 来启动有关技术优先领域的讨论。 最后，本次研讨会将制作一份报告，确定量子飞跃重大挑战中的优先研究和商业化重点，并确定组织受行业启发的学术研究中心（涉及多所大学）的战略，以吸引有意义的外部支持？来自行业和政府？并专注于具体的商业和社会相关目标。 理想情况下，参与公司还将分享对其高优先级技术挑战的见解，并利用设想的中心寻求这些问题的答案。