Parties in comparison

Who wants to promote which future technologies

Archive image: Space Minister Leonore Gewessler at the Viennese space supplier Beyond Gravity Austria. However, aerospace is only one economic sector in which the parties see opportunities for the country ...

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6.3 million Austrians will vote for a new parliament on September 29 - and thus set a new course not only in the "analog" world. For the parties, digitalization and high-tech are no longer uncharted territory, but an area that they want to shape. Krone+ reveals the parties' technology policy ambitions so that you can go to the ballot box informed.

More and more new technologies are becoming part of our everyday lives: Internet satellites provide connectivity to the furthest corners of the country, more and more electric vehicles are on our roads, surgeons are operating in hospitals with the support of high-tech robots and research into future technology such as artificial intelligence and quantum computers is being carried out in Austria's universities and companies. But what is it that is driving us forward and should be promoted? Krone+ asked the parties standing for election on Sunday which three future technologies they consider to be particularly promising.