(ANSA) – NAPOLI, 12 SET – With research, industry is also preparing for the quantum technology revolution, possible only an investment of one billion over five years on which the Budget Law will have to decide. This is the picture that emerged today in Naples at the conference of scientific and space workers and agricultural experts organized by the Foreign Ministry in Naples at the Capodimonte Observatory of the National Institute of Astrophysics.
Quantum technologies constitute “a system change” destined to have spillover effects on so many areas of research and industry, said University and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini. The change began on July 10 with the approval of the National Quantum Technology Strategy and available online as of Sept. 5, and it is already clear that there are many areas of industry and research that could benefit greatly, such as pharmaceuticals, meteorology and geology.
Having adopted a Quantum Strategy “makes us competitive in the world because it naturally applies to government, to research, but also and especially to business,” the minister added. It is a necessary step because “if we want to be competitive in a world that changes very quickly, we have to change our strategies just as quickly. And that is what we have done so far.” Accompanying the change are then powerful technologies such as supercomputing, an area that sees Italy as a world power in supercomputing,” as Antonio Zoccoli, president of the Icsc – National Center for Research in High-Performance Computing and president of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, called it. Italy is “among the top 3 countries in the world with more computing power,” he added.
“The government has already discussed and approved our Strategy in a meeting of the Council of Ministers,” said the coordinator of the National Strategy on Quantum Technologies Tommaso Calarco, professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter at the University of Bologna. The Strategy is the result of a great deal of teamwork between the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Enterprise and Made in Italy, the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the National Cybersecurity Agency. All together, Calarco said, they “made the recommendation of an investment in the order of one billion over five years, to stay in step with the rest of the activities at the European level.” It is a “recommendation that we express chorally, not only from the scientific community but also from policy makers,” he noted.
“Of course, this requires concretization at the level of the Budget Law, and this is a decision of the policy makers on which we scientists have, clearly, no more than a little say. We are very very pleased and optimistic,” he said again, “that this strategy, with this recommendation, is shared really very broadly. The economic commitment, he concluded, “is certainly substantial, but it is not impossible to achieve. So the next step to concretize it would be right in the Budget Law, and then we would move on to the development of the structures that we have recommended within the Strategy.”
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Quantum technologies constitute “a system change” destined to have spillover effects on so many areas of research and industry, said University and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini. The change began on July 10 with the approval of the National Quantum Technology Strategy and available online as of Sept. 5, and it is already clear that there are many areas of industry and research that could benefit greatly, such as pharmaceuticals, meteorology and geology.
Having adopted a Quantum Strategy “makes us competitive in the world because it naturally applies to government, to research, but also and especially to business,” the minister added. It is a necessary step because “if we want to be competitive in a world that changes very quickly, we have to change our strategies just as quickly. And that is what we have done so far.” Accompanying the change are then powerful technologies such as supercomputing, an area that sees Italy as a world power in supercomputing,” as Antonio Zoccoli, president of the Icsc – National Center for Research in High-Performance Computing and president of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, called it. Italy is “among the top 3 countries in the world with more computing power,” he added.
“The government has already discussed and approved our Strategy in a meeting of the Council of Ministers,” said the coordinator of the National Strategy on Quantum Technologies Tommaso Calarco, professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter at the University of Bologna. The Strategy is the result of a great deal of teamwork between the ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Enterprise and Made in Italy, the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the National Cybersecurity Agency. All together, Calarco said, they “made the recommendation of an investment in the order of one billion over five years, to stay in step with the rest of the activities at the European level.” It is a “recommendation that we express chorally, not only from the scientific community but also from policy makers,” he noted.
“Of course, this requires concretization at the level of the Budget Law, and this is a decision of the policy makers on which we scientists have, clearly, no more than a little say. We are very very pleased and optimistic,” he said again, “that this strategy, with this recommendation, is shared really very broadly. The economic commitment, he concluded, “is certainly substantial, but it is not impossible to achieve. So the next step to concretize it would be right in the Budget Law, and then we would move on to the development of the structures that we have recommended within the Strategy.”
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