  We analyse scale invariant quadratic quantum gravity incorporating
non-minimal coupling to a multiplet of scalar fields in a gauge theory, with
particular emphasis on the consequences for its interpretation resulting from a
transformation from the Jordan frame to the Einstein frame. The result is the
natural emergence of a de Sitter space solution which, depending the gauge
theory and region of parameter space chosen, can be free of ghosts and
tachyons, and completely asymptotically free. In the case of an SO(10) model,
we present a detailed account of the spontaneous symmetry breaking, and we
calculate the leading (two-loop) contribution to the dilaton mass.
