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Draft SRIA 2026: Intellectual property

Draft SRIA 2026 overview / Cross-cutting chapters

Draft for consultation. This is the draft Strategic Research and Industry Agenda of the second phase of the public consultation, not an adopted agenda: chapters, goals and figures may change.

Source: Strategic Research and Industry Agenda (SRIA) for quantum technologies, Draft for the second phase of the public consultation (Quantum Flagship, 306 pages, PDF dated 2026-09-19). Summaries are in our own words; years, figures and targets are as stated, with the page.

Public consultation: closed on 2026-10-02, as stated on qt.eu. Comments were collected per chapter through the consultation page. qt.eu gives 2 October 2026 as the closing date for every chapter (consultation page and news post of 19 September 2026, read on 27 October 2026); the draft PDF (page 145) states 16 to 30 September. Responses went through one form per chapter on the consultation page.

Calls IP a strategic asset rather than an add-on, notes that Europe’s patent share trails its share of companies, and proposes five objectives and recommendations, including an EU-level IP initiative and support for SMEs in standards work.

In the draft
Chapter 8: Intellectual Property
Pages
239–252
Themes
Intellectual property, Standards and benchmarks, International cooperation

Goals and milestones

Showing 6 of 6 items.

  1. Goal no date stated

    Strengthen European patent and trade-secret positions in strategically relevant quantum technologies, and judge funding programmes also by the IP they create.

    Draft SRIA, page 247

    What the portal shows today

    This goal maps to no technology family, so the portal has no direct count for it; see the related pages of the chapter.

  2. Goal no date stated

    Improve the visibility and coordination of distributed IP assets: patent landscape intelligence, shared IP tools and expertise, and help for SMEs.

    Draft SRIA, pages 247 to 248

    What the portal shows today

    This goal maps to no technology family, so the portal has no direct count for it; see the related pages of the chapter.

  3. Goal no date stated

    Link IP strategy with standardisation and market access, with training on how IP, standards and commercialisation interact.

    Draft SRIA, page 248

    What the portal shows today

    This goal maps to no technology family, so the portal has no direct count for it; see the related pages of the chapter.

  4. Goal no date stated

    Embed IP management early in publicly funded projects and make technology transfer faster through quantum-aware practices.

    Draft SRIA, page 248

    What the portal shows today

    This goal maps to no technology family, so the portal has no direct count for it; see the related pages of the chapter.

  5. Goal no date stated

    Keep control of critical IP through system-level levers such as making IP transfers visible to investment screening and safeguards in licensing of publicly funded work.

    Draft SRIA, pages 248 to 249

    What the portal shows today

    This goal maps to no technology family, so the portal has no direct count for it; see the related pages of the chapter.

  6. Goal no date stated

    Consider a dedicated IP Observatory in the governance under the Quantum Act, for annual landscape reviews of risks and dependencies.

    Draft SRIA, page 249

    What the portal shows today

    This goal maps to no technology family, so the portal has no direct count for it; see the related pages of the chapter.

KPIs as stated in the draft

This chapter has no KPI table.

What the portal shows today

Read-only figures of this portal, for orientation; they are not SRIA figures and do not measure progress against the draft.

Current Flagship KPIs (SAB booklet 2025)