Report · Spring 2025

The Allied Paper on Dual-Use Ventures

MIT Mission Innovation X.

Role: Coordinating Lead Author.

What it is

Published Spring 2025 by MIT Mission Innovation X. The paper synthesizes insights from MIT's Dual-Use Ventures program, where entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, academics, and defense professionals examined how public-private partnerships can serve both national security and commercial innovation. It was collaboratively authored by volunteers from the DUV25 cohort; Jonathan B. Miller served as Coordinating Lead Author. It is written for founders in tough tech sectors and covers non-dilutive government funding, regulatory adaptation, and long-term commercial viability. It is the first in a series continued by the 2026 Dual-Use Horizon Report.

Verification

The paper's Authors section credits the DUV25 cohort and names Jonathan B. Miller as Coordinating Lead Author. The MIT MIx paper page hosts it.

Cite this

MIT Dual-Use Ventures 2025 Cohort. The Allied Paper on Dual-Use Ventures. Coordinating Lead Author: Jonathan B. Miller. MIT Mission Innovation X, 2025. https://mix.mit.edu/the-allied-paper/
@techreport{duv25allied,
  author      = {{MIT Dual-Use Ventures 2025 Cohort}},
  title       = {The Allied Paper on Dual-Use Ventures},
  institution = {MIT Mission Innovation X},
  year        = {2025},
  url         = {https://mix.mit.edu/the-allied-paper/},
  note        = {Coordinating Lead Author: Jonathan B. Miller}
}