18/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Flagship initiative on quantum technologies on starting blocks. The European Commission is laying the ground for the flagship initiative on quantum technologies which will be launched in 2018, confirmed Digital Economy and Society Commissioner Günther Oettinger in a speech delivered on Tuesday 17 May at the Quantum Europe 2016 conference in Amsterdam (Netherlands). This €1 billion initiative is part of the package to digitise industry, presented on 19 April....