OVERVIEW

The Dual-use Ventures IAP course is a learning opportunity for students, technology builders, companies, and the broader community looking to understand: 

• Why dual-use technology is important for innovation in the U.S. and among its Allies.
• How to build, grow, and scale dual-use ventures domestically and globally among like-minded, open societies. 
• The key challenges ventures face when developing technology serving both government and commercial customers and how to navigate them.

We’ll discuss frameworks, funding opportunities, entrepreneur roadmaps, and government resources. 

Participants will co-author a whitepaper synthesizing learnings from the course.

STRUCTURE

This short course offers expert-led presentations in-person on the MIT campus. The format has historically been highly interactive, and we encourage those eager to engage with instructors and peers to attend the course in its entirety. 

KEY OUTCOMES

• Understand the need to move opportunistically across both commercial and defense markets in the early stage of a venture
• Gain insights on how dual-use ventures can navigate the Dual-Use Readiness levers over the course of their commercialization journey. 
• Learn about government-driven incentives across various national security and defense innovation agencies. 
• Gain insights on how to protect the long-term value of your technology for both commercial and government markets with a robust IP strategy
• Understand the key challenges related to the adoption of dual-use technology 
• Collaboratively develop a whitepaper summarizing key insights.