The impact of Quantum Computing on business models: possible scenarios

Abstract

The "quantum race" and the quantum computer, a type of computational architecture based on principles of quantum physics, are about to get to the heart. Thanks to the research at the Digital Innovation Observatories of the Politecnico di Milano, I got to know this new technology that promises to redesign the concept of computers, guaranteeing a computational power unreachable by traditional computers. Probably we can think that the quantum computer is futuristic, still a hypothesis, the reality says something else: we can already develop applications and algorithms on (though primitive) quantum architectures. What will be the effect of the Quantum Computer? On which sectors? And how could it impact the business models of companies in these sectors? These are some questions that I would like to investigate in this work.