Bosch Honors Best Start-Up Collaboration

The Bosch Group recognized Code Intelligence and Hesai Photonics with the “Open Bosch Award“ for best start-up collaboration. This marks the first time the supplier of technology and services honors outstanding performance in open innovation between Bosch and start-ups.

Code Intelligence, a start-up based in Bonn, Germany, provides automated security-testing solutions for software. Hesai is a Shanghai-based start-up that designs and manufactures sensor technology that allows automated vehicles to see their surroundings in 3D with high resolution.

“Partnerships are vital in a connected world,“ emphasizes Dr. Michael Bolle, chief digital and technology officer at Bosch. “With the Open Bosch Award, we honor the best start-up collaboration worldwide,“ said Bolle. Currently, Bosch is running several hundred start-up collaborations across all business areas, the majority of these focusing on the mobility sector.

For the Open Bosch Award, the main criteria are mutual benefit for all parties involved, best practice character in terms of set-up, approach and commitment, as well as outcome in means of measurable impact. The awards ceremony took place at the Bosch Connected World in Berlin. The Open Bosch Award values the importance of open innovation through close collaboration between start-ups and Bosch.