Must Read: MIT's 2026 Dual-Use Horizon Report, with Radix GP Paweł Bochniarz among its Content Leads

The future of venture capital is increasingly shaped by geopolitics, industrial capacity, and defense innovation. These themes are at the heart of "Dual-Use Ventures in an Era of Allied Resilience" the 2026 Dual-Use Horizon Report published by MIT Mission Innovation X. We're proud that Radix GP Paweł Bochniarz served as one of the report's Content Leads, contributing alongside an international group of founders, investors, policymakers, researchers, and defense practitioners.

The report argues that dual-use is no longer a niche investment category - it is rapidly becoming a strategic layer of the global technology economy. It describes the emergence of a new "allied innovation system" built around three interconnected forces: capital, production, and governance. According to the report, the companies best positioned to succeed over the next decade will be those capable of aligning all three.

Among the report's key concepts is the "three investment theaters" framework, which examines how active conflict zones, high-risk frontier states, and stable economies each create different conditions for technology development, procurement, validation, and scaling.

The report also highlights Ukraine as one of the world's fastest real-world innovation environments for autonomy, AI, ISR, drones, and resilient infrastructure. With development cycles measured in weeks rather than years, the country is reshaping how defense technologies are built, tested, and deployed.

Another major trend explored in the report is the institutionalization of defense and dual-use investing through the rapid emergence of new NATO, EU, and sovereign financing mechanisms designed to strengthen strategic technologies and industrial resilience.

For investors, founders, and policymakers interested in defense technology, dual-use innovation, AI, industrial resilience, sovereign technologies, and the evolving relationship between geopolitics and venture capital, the report offers valuable insights into the forces shaping the next generation of innovation.

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🔗 Link to download the report: https://mix.mit.edu/duv26-horizon/

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