The ancestor of today’s automobiles was the Benz Patent Motor Car of 1886. This three-wheeled vehicle has been further developed by generations of engineers. Since that year, Daimler AG alone has registered patents for 120,000 innovations. In purely arithmetical terms, that amounts to five per day. But who are the people behind these ideas? What motivates them? And how can inventiveness be cultivated in the course of daily work at the Group? To answer this question, we met up with Urs Böhme, a developer who is one of the most productive patent applicants at Daimler.