Supporting KTH with an €80M Quantum Sensing Bid with Data
KTH Innovation•
€800M
Funding call supported
+400k
Papers analysed
+80M
Citations mapped
1000,000
Collaborations analysed
900%
Time reduction vs previous method
A field that resists definition
KTH was preparing an €80M funding application built around its strength in quantum sensing. To make the case credible, they needed to prove Sweden's position in the field: not just KTH's own output, but the surrounding research and industrial ecosystem it sits within.
The challenge is that quantum sensing doesn't fit into a single category. Relevant work is spread across physics, photonics, materials science, and more, much of it never labelled 'quantum sensing'. Any report built on keyword search would have undermined the field, and weakened the application.
Three analytical tracks, one coherent picture
KTH ran the analysis through the Klared Engine across three parallel tracks:
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Semantic mapping of the academic literature. Rather than keywords, Klared's embedding engine positioned every relevant paper by meaning, surfacing similarity between papers and topics, and producing an accurate map of Swedish academic output.
- 2
Research collaboration network analysis. Klared mapped the full research collaboration network: who works with whom, across which institutions, and where expertise is most concentrated. Graph-based network algorithms surfaced structure that just counting publication wouldn't have been enough.
- 3
Industrial discovery pipeline. Klared's pipeline scrapes and searches the web, identifying which Swedish companies are really active in quantum topics. The result was as an interactive, navigable map.
What KTH walked away with
The Klared Engine delivered an up-to-date, evidence-based view of Sweden's entire quantum sensing ecosystem, spanning academia and industry.
KTH anchored their case as lead applicant on the €80M funding call. Other institutions competing for the same call didn't have this.
Quantum sensing is a notoriously difficult field to map. Klared helped us move beyond keywords and gain a much richer understanding of the people, collaborations and industrial actors that together define the ecosystem.
Hannes Eder Öhrström
Business Development Coach, KTH Innovation