Quantum circuits repurposed to rank innovation partnerships

Using real European Commission funding data, the authors parameterize a quantum game circuit so each player's rotation angle reflects actual funding shares among academia, industry, government, and civil society. The circuit's measurement probabilities become scores distinguishing disruptive from sustaining innovation, which are then fed into a Dirac-equation-inspired economic growth model to simulate capital dynamics. The construction is compact—22 gates, depth 11—and runs on near-term hardware. The connection between quantum game theory and a 'relativistic' economics Hamiltonian is asserted but not derived from first principles, leaving the physical motivation unclear.