OVERTAKE AMERICA AS SOON AS 2027?<\/p>\n
Patent data offers an initial glimpse of who will likely come out on top. A surge of filings in China suggests Beijing\u2019s push to be a global leader is beginning to bear fruit. The US is still ahead, but a recent LexisNexis analysis of the strength of both countries\u2019 quantum computing patent portfolios forecasts China could overtake America as soon as 2027.<\/p>\n
Examining\u00a0hard-to-fudge patent data has been a key in\u00a0the earliest foreshadowing of future trends, Marco Richter, the director of IP analytics and strategy at LexisNexis, told me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe technology shift that we\u2019ve seen in patents in electric vehicles many years ago has already taken shape,\u201d Richter explained. By applying the same logic to the dynamics observed in quantum computing now,\u00a0\u201cwe can only imagine that we are on a similar path where Chinese organisations will play a very important role in these technologies in just a few years\u2019 time,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n
The analysis goes beyond raw tallying, weighing for global reach, relevance and impact by looking at other factors, such as how often patents are cited in new research. A key takeaway\u00a0is that the old narrative of US titans like IBM, Alphabet\u2019s Google and Microsoft battling each other is outdated. China isn\u2019t just catching up, it\u2019s generating new champions.<\/p>\n
Beijing\u2019s commitment\u00a0explains\u00a0why. It\u00a0has poured US$15.3 billion\u00a0in public funds for investments in quantum computing, more than eight times the US$1.9 billion the US has pledged.<\/p>\n
America\u2019s fragile position at the top hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed. Earlier this year, Microsoft president Brad Smith warned that \u201cwe cannot afford to rule out the possibility of a strategic surprise or that China may already be at parity with the United States\u201d. He urged in a blog post for the US and allies to double down on a coordinated national strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVERTAKE AMERICA AS SOON AS 2027? Patent data offers an initial glimpse of who will likely come out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[182,144,199,2048,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-251721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-physics","11":"tag-quantum-technology","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}