Vienna's Leap into the Quantum Age: How the Danube City is Becoming Europe's Deep Tech Hub

Ever since Anton Zeilinger (2022) and Ferenc Krausz (2023) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, Vienna has firmly established itself on the global physics map. But the capital city is no longer content to merely peer through the academic microscope: Vienna is preparing to translate the “Second Quantum Revolution”—the active control of quantum states such as superposition and entanglement—directly into the economy. An ambitious master plan, supported by the Vienna Business Agency and Municipal Department 23 (Economy, Labor, and Statistics), aims to establish the city as a strategic hub of European technological sovereignty.