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GovStrat is a technology deeptech consulting firm providing customized technology strategy and consulting services.

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Response to EU quantum Act

13 Nov 2025

Europe can seize global leadership in quantum by moving decisively from coordination to consolidation: align national programmes into a single European ecosystem, backstop market formation through a multiyear EU Member State strategic procurement scheme for startups and SMEs, accelerate a made in Europe supply chain for critical components, make HPC quantum integration a flagship to deploy hybrid computing at scale, institutionalise scaling via standardisation by leveraging ETSI TC Quantum Technologies for interoperable specifications in quantum communications and networking, focus resources to build true European champions even if not every Member State hosts one, and embed robust IP policies so European inventions translate into market power and standards essential assets. More details in the attached document.
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Response to Quantum Strategy of the EU

26 May 2025

The European Commissions Quantum Strategy is a pivotal step towards establishing Europe as a global leader in quantum technologies. As an expert in standardisation and quantum technologies, I emphasise the critical role of standardisation and intellectual property in enabling innovation, fostering global competitiveness, and bridging the gaps between policymakers, academics, and industry stakeholders. Standardisation and Global Coordination Standardisation underpins the successful deployment of quantum technologies by ensuring interoperability, scalability, and trust. It enables quantum solutions to integrate seamlessly into global markets, providing a foundation for collaboration across regions. A globally coordinated approach is essential to position Europe as a leader in quantum innovation and to accelerate the development of international standards. Supporting Startups and SMEs Startups and SMEs drive innovation but often lack the resources to engage in standardisation processes. Targeted funding and support are essential to enable their participation, ensuring their contributions align with global standards and facilitating the international scaling of their solutions. Strengthening Intellectual Property and Patents A robust IP framework, including strategic use of patents in standardisation, is critical for fostering leadership in quantum technologies. Patents play a strategic role in standardisation by: * Ensuring fair returns on innovation efforts. * Encouraging investment in research and development. * Protecting Europes technological advancements while enabling fair competition. Interoperability for Competitiveness Interoperability is a cornerstone for scale-ups to compete globally. It allows European companies to expand into international markets, collaborate effectively, and lead the quantum revolution with innovative, market-ready solutions. My recommendation Prioritising standardisation, global coordination, and intellectual property rights within the EU Quantum Strategy will secure Europes leadership in quantum technologies. By fostering collaboration and supporting startups and SMEs, Europe can build a resilient, innovative, and globally connected quantum ecosystem. I remain committed to supporting these goals through expertise and engagement.
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Response to Standard Essential Patents

10 Aug 2023

GovStrat appreciates the opportunity to submits these comments to the European Commission with respect to the Proposed SEP Regulation. As a consultancy firm dedicated to help Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) to contribute to Standards Development Organisations(1) and help them to define their Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) strategy, this consultation is timely. The Proposed SEP Regulation raises concerns, as considering the very small number of SMEs consulted (indicated in the impact assessment) commissioned by the European Commission(2), it shows that a much broader consultation should be conducted to really understand the market, needs of SMEs and regulate (or not). There are thousands of standards covering a large number of different technologies that involve stakeholders with diverging interests and views. Needless to say, that the complexity of licensing Standards Essential Patents requires a thorough understanding and a very careful assessment. The Empirical Assessment findings, assessments and conclusions do not support the Proposed SEP Regulation. GovStrat appreciates this opportunity to provide these comments to the European Commission and is available to further discussions. (1) Calling upon all SME & micro-enterprise Members in the ETSI community to support the campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDHhS8MSGnY (2) Baron, Arque-Castells, Leonard, Pohlmann, and Sergheraert, Empirical Assessment of Potential Challenges in SEP Licensing (the Empirical Assessment), European Commission.
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Response to Standardisation Strategy

9 Aug 2021

GovStrat helps a diversity of clients, with a special focus on SMEs, in their standardisation activities: implementation of technical specifications, intellectual property rights (IPRs) creation, contribution to Standardisation Development Organisations (SDOs) and especially European Standards Organisations (ESOs). GovStrat welcomes this opportunity to provide feedback on the Roadmap for the European Standardisation Strategy (ESS) which contribute greatly to foster innovation and competitiveness. First of all, the fact that more than 25% of the 900 ETSI members are SMEs shows how this ESO has been able to become the global model in ICT standards: open and transparent governance allied to a clear IPR policy based on Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms. ETSI offers the transparency and certainty that SMEs need. Then, despite the many advantages of the European standardisation system, several issues have been clearly identified over the last few years (including by contributors to ETSI). As a counsellor to ETSI, the EC actively contributes to the ETSI Board, which is really helpful. However, the communication between the ESOs and the EC would be greatly improved should it actively contribute to the standards development process: - to clarify the standardisation requests’ scope and the desired outcome assisting the standards development. - a direct involvement of the EC would avoid the use of outsourced HAS consultants in the development process of Harmonised Standards: a proactive enhancement that would limit potential issues regarding citation in the OJEU. SMEs may quickly face important challenges if citations of harmonised standards in the OJEU are not timely as they rely on the presumption of conformity. As a consequence, long cycles of citation should be avoided. One suggestion that may help to fix the communication issues, and the misunderstanding between ESOs and industry stakeholders would be to have HAS consultants and desk officers to be colleagues as both being employees of the EC, or even to merge the roles. Finally, ETSI’s IPR policy is the cornerstone of the global success of 3GPP and oneM2M: global partnerships based on European values. European SMEs greatly benefit from it. The FRAND framework helps SMEs to create value, value their ideas and inventions, sit at the same table as global manufacturers and monetise their research and development. It strikes the perfect balance between those who contribute their technologies to standards and those who implement them. It would be appreciated that the EC factors this into the Standardisation Strategy, Horizontal Guidelines review, the IP Action plan as well as its proposed initiative on standards essential patents. GovStrat would be pleased to further discuss these proposals and any other aspects with the EC in the course of this initiative.
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