Ten years of the Renningen Research Campus
The Renningen Research Campus celebrates its tenth anniversary today. Bosch is hosting guests from industry, academia, and politics to commemorate a decade of concentrated cutting-edge research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and international networking.
Since its opening in 2015, the headquarters of Robert Bosch GmbH's Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering in Renningen, Germany, has developed into a central innovation hub. Here, the work of approximately 1,750 experts across eleven locations in six countries worldwide is coordinated. Their research focuses on future fields such as automation, digitalization, electrification, artificial intelligence, climate protection, and healthcare, contributing significantly to Bosch’s technological innovative strength. Dr. Stefan Hartung, chairman of the board of management of Robert Bosch GmbH, emphasized the importance of the research campus for Bosch during the ceremony: “Renningen is the heart of our global research and advanced engineering activities. Here, our brightest minds work on the technologies of tomorrow. The innovative power emanating from this location is a key driver for Bosch’s success. And this is also reflected in the numbers: Bosch Research is involved in an average of one out of four Bosch patent applications annually.”
Since 2022, in addition to the approximately 1,350 researchers, teams from the Cross-Domain Computing Solutions (XC) division have also been active at the Renningen site. They contribute their expertise in the series development of sensors for assisted and automated driving, as well as in the application of the latest driver assistance system technologies in vehicles. This means that around 2,100 Bosch employees now work in Renningen. Udo-Martin Gómez, Head of Bosch Research, summarized during the ten-year anniversary ceremony of the site: “The Renningen Research Campus is not only a place of cutting-edge research but also a symbol of the conviction that innovation thrives best through exchange – across departmental and divisional boundaries, across cultures and disciplines.”
Baden-Württemberg’s Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann has supported the site from its groundbreaking in 2012 to the present day and was present as an honored guest at the ceremony. He acknowledged the role of the research campus for the region: “The Renningen Research Campus stands for the innovative power that makes Baden-Württemberg strong. For the past ten years, scientific excellence, entrepreneurial courage, and technological progress have merged here to form a genuine site for the future. Renningen is thus a central place where the future of Bosch — and therefore a part of the future of our high-tech location Baden-Württemberg — is being shaped.”
An exhibition in the foyer allowed visitors to trace Bosch's historical and current research: from Robert Bosch’s first workbench to the electric drives of the future.
The research and development center in Renningen is a symbol of Bosch's innovative strength and progress. At the headquarters of Bosch Research in Renningen, various disciplines come together to work collaboratively on the technologies of the future. All are united by the same motivation: to develop technology which is “Invented for life.”