The UK’s deep-tech innovation accelerator Digital Catapult has welcomed 11 commercial and public organizations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme (QTAP). Delivered in tandem with the National Quantum Computing Centre’s (NQCC) SparQ program, the initiative provides a structured incubation pathway to transition theoretical algorithms into verifiable industrial prototypes. Running through February 2027, the third cohort expands into the financial services sector and specialized healthcare diagnostics for the first time. Participants will be granted direct access to ORCA Computing’s PT-2 photonic quantum computer, deployed on-premises at the NQCC, alongside cloud-based simulation environments to run live hardware benchmarking. Pivoting [...]

Eleven UK organisations join Digital Catapult’s Quantum Technology Access Programme to test practical quantum computing use cases with NQCC support.

The UK’s deep-tech innovation accelerator Digital Catapult has welcomed 11 commercial and public organizations to the third cohort of its Quantum Technology Access Programme…