The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) and Silicon Catalyst announced a new partnership to support quantum startups and bring them to Illinois. The Illinois Economic Development Corporation played a key role in facilitating the partnership. Under the agreement, the IQMP – a first-of-its-kind park built for quantum technology scale-up and related quantum and microelectronics research and development – will provide infrastructure including lab space, state-of-the-art equipment and other resources for the quantum companies participating in Silicon Catalyst’s accelerator. The announcement was made at the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, the eighth annual conference connecting the international quantum computing ecosystems. Silicon Catalyst is the only accelerator focused on the global semiconductor industry, including Chips, Chiplets, Materials, IP and Silicon fabrication-based Photonics, MEMS, Sensors, Life Science and Quantum. It has a global footprint, including entities in the UK, the EU, Israel, Japan and Australia. The IQMP, which is designed to support the full ecosystem of companies, researchers, suppliers, end users and other partners working to facilitate the development and commercialization of quantum technologies, including the world’s first utility-scale computers, broke ground in fall 2025.