People with extensive international experience and broad relations in the academia, industry and finance sectors represent NQCGs Board of Directors.
Axel P. Mustad, Chairman
Field of expertise; Value Exchange Systems.
Axel P. Mustad is Founder and Chairman of Nordic Quantum Computing Group AS (NQCG). He has spent significant time over the last decade researching experimental market mechanisms pertaining specifically to future and emerging technologies, then with a special emphasis on intellectual assets in complex innovation systems. He is also founder of Institute of Future Technologies (IFT), a virtual collaborative research organization represented by universities, private and public research institutes and industry from all over the world involved in research and development of nano-scale science, engineering and technology.
He was active in the formation of Standards Norway’s Technical Committee on Standardization for Nanotechnology (SN/K 298 – Nanotechnology) and has since its inauguration served as Chairman of SN/K 298, the Norwegian Mirror Committee to the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee on Standardization for Nanotechnology (CEN/TC 352 – Nanotechnology) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee on Standardization for Nanotechnology (ISO/TC 229 – Nanotechnology). He is represented in ISO/TC 229 as a Norwegian Delegate and Expert and Head of the Norwegian Delegation to ISO/TC 229.
In parallel he serves as Chairman of the Norwegian Electrotechnical Committee on Nanotechnology Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems (NEK/NK 113 – Nanotechnology), the Norwegian Mirror Committee to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee on Nanotechnology Standardization for Electrical and Electronic Products and Systems (IEC/TC 113 – Nanotechnology) where he serves as Norwegian Delegate and Expert and Head of the Norwegian Delegation to IEC/TC 113.
He is represented in the Joint Working Group of ISO and IEC that coordinate international activities in developing and maintaining an international standard terminology and nomenclature system for nanotechnology. In support of this important work he is actively involved in widening the two Norwegian national Technical Committees (Standards Norway and Norwegian Electrotechnical Committee) involved in Nanotechnology Standardization to become an aligned and strong national voice in international standardization for nanotechnology.
He is representing the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in areas related to development of standard classification systems for nanoscience and nanotechnology and is appointed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters to represent Norway in the International Council for Science (ICSU) related to classification for nanotechnology.
He provides universities, research institutes, industry, financial institutions, NGOs, governments and inter-governmental bodies all over the world with strategic advise in their work with implementing new tools and methodologies for nano-scale science, engineering and technology research and innovation systems and how these best can be used as underlying mechanisms in future socioeconomic, technoeconomic and technopolitical systems.