Intellectual Ventures Lab

A panoramic view of the Lab's warehouse, containing our 'pile of junk.'

Thomas Edison is credited with saying,

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

At Intellectual Ventures, we’re dedicated to being the leaders in the business of invention.  Therefore, a big pile of junk is somewhat of a forgone conclusion.  In 2006, even as Nathan Myhrvold and Edward Jung were still forging the idea of IV Labs, truckloads started to arrive at our then empty Bellevue, WA location.  Since that point, the Lab has worked hard to develop an enormously diverse and capable set of scientific equipment to complement its enormously diverse and capable staff.
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