Dr Edward Jung
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Intellectual Ventures
Edward Jung is a global expert in innovation ecosystems, with 40 years of experience in software, R&D, entrepreneurship, and startups in multiple countries, with scientific expertise in mathematical physics and biophysics.
An avid inventor and entrepreneur, Edward holds more than 1,200 issued patents and founded more than 40 organisations in the areas of biomedicine, computing, networking, energy, and material sciences.
Edward founded Intellectual Ventures in 1999 after leaving Microsoft Corporation, where he was chief architect and co-founder of Microsoft Research. His biomedical research in the 1980s in protein structure and function was published in journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Biochemistry.
Edward has served as an advisor to numerous non-commercial organisations, including the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Medical School, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and World Health Organization.