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Leslie Green Special to Crain's Detroit Business - Top executive: Sergio Marchionne, CEO Patents in 2015: 106 Score: 119.60 "We do not approach innovation as 'Let's go do some peer research,' " said Phil Jansen, head of product development for FCA-North America. "We start with our brands and our customers' needs … and innovate around those needs." For one patent, Jansen said, it was time for the automaker to reinvent the fuel pump on the Chrysler Pacifica, finding ways to integrate it electrically and making it as efficient as

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