Background
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH is a global leader in the home appliance industry and the leading home appliance manufacturer in Europe, represented in about 50 countries.
The company’s brand portfolio includes eleven well-known appliance brands like Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau and Neff as well as the ecosystem brand Home Connect and service brands like Kitchen Stories.
The product portfolio ranges from large home appliances – such as cooktops, ovens, extractor hoods, dishwashers, washers, dryers, fridges, and freezers – to small home appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, espresso machines as well as small kitchen appliances.
BSH is a Bosch Group company.
Challenge
BSH aspires to delight consumers across the world. With food playing a central role around consumer's life, we’re looking for innovative solutions to create a seamless experience around cooking with recipes.
This includes inspiration, also based on stock, meal planning, supported grocery shopping experience and a guided cooking process. Nutrition analysis, recipe adaptation, linkage to home appliances, video cooking classes and support in ingredients selection are also in scope.
BSH is seeking solutions at any stage of development.
What's in it for you?
A successful collaboration could mean forming a partnership/joint venture to co-develop and co-launch the idea to market.
This is a global challenge and BSH is willing to collaborate with individuals/freelancers and other industry participants/universities.
Please describe your approach detailled enough so that we can assess if we should start further discussions. However, please keep the protection of your work results and your efforts in mind. Therefore, please don’t provide confidential information at this stage.
Especially, please first file a patent application in your name before you provide us with any information, which you believe to comprise an invention. Only proceed if you are fine with that. Everything we receive at this stage, we will consider to be non-confidential.
If we see potential for a further collaboration, we will approach you and enter into a confidentiality agreement with you so that your information is protected in the course of the further disucssions.
Please be aware that we might have had the same idea as you and are already working on a similar approach.