Stakeholders

Who has a stake in Thailand’s quantum economy, and where a university centre sits among them.

Quantum technology is one of the second-wave S-curve industries in Thailand’s economic strategy, following the Bio-Circular-Green economy. That places a university research centre inside a much larger structure of funders, regulators, industry and education — and makes it worth being explicit about who does what.

Policy & funding

Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation; Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI); the Eastern Economic Corridor Office; the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.

Research base

University centres and institutes — including CEQT and RCQT at Chiang Mai University — together with national laboratories and metrology institutes.

Industry

Electronics and instrumentation manufacturers, software and services firms, defence and aerospace, finance, energy and logistics operators.

Spin-offs & SMEs

Companies commercialising instrumentation and components developed in the research base.

Education

Graduate programmes, short courses and the schools pipeline — the binding constraint on everything else.

International

Partner universities and institutes, hardware providers, and multilateral programmes.

Where CEQT sits

We are in the research base, and our particular contribution is the computational layer: algorithms, simulation and software. We are not a manufacturer and not a consultancy. Where a stakeholder needs instrumentation, the answer is RCQT or one of the spin-offs; where they need a problem formulated and solved, it is us.

The full analysis

A detailed stakeholder analysis of Thailand’s quantum economy, written in Thai, sits behind this summary and is available on request from the centre.

Last updated 14 September 2026.