Editing Renault (section)

===Engineering and Product Planning===
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Most of Renault engineering was decentralised until 1998, when the Technocentre became the main Renault's engineering facility.<ref name=R1985/><ref name=TECHNO>{{cite web |url=http://wardsauto.com/news-amp-analysis/renaults-technocentre |title=Renault's Technocentre | last = Winter | first = Drew |work=wardsauto.com |publisher=Wards |date=1 July 2001 |access-date=1 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724102913/http://wardsauto.com/news-amp-analysis/renaults-technocentre |archive-date=24 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Satellite centres exist, including Renault Technologies Americas (with branches in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico), Renault Technologies Romania (branches in Morocco, Russia, Slovenia and Turkey) and Renault Technologies Spain (branch in Portugal).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.renault.com/en/groupe/renault-dans-le-monde/pages/conception.aspx |title=Conception |publisher=Renault |access-date=13 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328143633/http://www.renault.com/en/groupe/renault-dans-le-monde/pages/conception.aspx |archive-date=28 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2013}}, Renault's engineering section had over 6,500 employees worldwide, of which 34% were engineers and 63% technicians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.renault.com/en/carrieres/nos-metiers/pages/ingienerie-vehicule.aspx |title=Vehicle Engineering |publisher=Renault |access-date=22 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003095121/http://www.renault.com/en/carrieres/nos-metiers/pages/ingienerie-vehicule.aspx |archive-date=3 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Engine development is in charge of a specific division, Renault Powertrains, with nearly 65 engineers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.powertrain.renault.com/news/key-figures/ |title=Key Figures |publisher=Renault Powertrains |access-date=22 February 2013 |archive-date=3 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803132435/http://www.powertrain.renault.com/news/key-figures/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Overseas engineering is increasing and research and design teams are in charge of adjusting existing vehicles to local needs and budgets.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Laperche|first1=Blandine|last2=Lefebvre |first2= Giliane|year=2012 |title= The globalization of Research & Development in industrial corporations: Towards "reverse innovation"?|url=http://www.cairn.info/zen.php?ID_ARTICLE=JIE_010_0053 |journal=Journal of Innovation Economics & Management|publisher= De Boeck Supérieur|volume= 10|issue=2 |pages= 53–79|doi= 10.3917/jie.010.0053|access-date=29 April 2015|doi-access=free}}</ref>

{{As of|2014}}, Engineering, and Product Planning, are directed by Gaspar Gascon Abellan<ref>{{cite web |url=http://europe.autonews.com/article/20140625/ANE/140629934/0/SEARCH |title=Renault names new engineering chief |work=europe.autonews.com |publisher=Automotive News Europe | last = Gain | first = Bruce |date=25 June 2014 |access-date=26 June 2014}}</ref> and [[Philippe Klein]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.renault.com/en/groupe/management-et-gouvernance/comite-de-direction/pages/philippe-klein.aspx |title=Philippe Klein |publisher=Renault |access-date=22 February 2013}}</ref> respectively.