  Several new results regarding the quantum cosmology of the quadratic gravity
theory derived from the heterotic string effective action are presented. After
describing techniques for solving the Wheeler-De Witt equation with appropriate
boundary conditions, it is shown that this quantum cosmological model may be
compared with semiclassical theories of inflationary cosmology. In particular,
it should be possible to compute corrections to the standard inflationary model
perturbatively about a stable exponentially expanding classical background.
