Knowledge Asset Grant Fund: Expand (UK)

Deadline: 16-Mar-23

Eligible UK public sector organisations can apply for the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund (Expand).

The Knowledge Asset Grant Fund (KAGF) is run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) and funded by the Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Innovate UK is administering this competition on behalf of GOTT.

The Knowledge Assets Grant Fund (KAGF) aims to unlock the potential for developing and exploiting public sector knowledge assets. The KAGF provides financial support to help unearth potentially valuable knowledge assets and to develop the exploitation pathway of assets outside of business as usual purposes.

The aim of this competition is to support the identification and development of public sector knowledge assets, including repurposing, commercialisation or expanded use. These assets can include:

• inventions
• designs
• certain research and development (R&D) outcomes
• data and information
• creative outputs such as text, video, graphics, software and source code
• know-how and expertise
• business processes, services
• other intellectual resources

Specific Themes

• The Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) reserves the right to prioritise projects within specific themes to help meet the Government’s objectives.
• If actioned, themed calls will be scheduled within existing funding rounds. The introduction of themed calls will not have an impact on deadlines and panel dates.
• GOTT will support themes by providing substantive guidance and application support to ‘on-theme’ projects. Further information will be made available when applicable.

Funding Information

• Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £25,001 and £100,000.
• Your project must:
  • start by 1 June 2023
  • end by 30 November 2024
  • last between 2 and 18 months
  • spend at least 50% of the budget during the first half of the project
  • generate social, financial or economic benefits to the UK
  • seek funding to develop a knowledge asset that is majority owned by the UK government organisation applying for funding

Ineligible Projects

• They are not funding:
  • fundamental research and development aimed at creating new knowledge assets
  • projects which have already advanced to the point where they could be eligible for investment by private funding sources
  • projects that are directly or indirectly requesting funding for an existing commercial entity that is not a government body
  • projects that aim to subsidise ‘business as usual’ activities, for example, activities directed by Ministers or set out in organisational strategies or remit, unless they address new markets or customers
  • projects that only benefit the organisation applying or existing customers and users
  • privately owned companies, including spin-out companies
• Organisations not eligible to apply for the KAGF include, but are not limited to:
  • universities and academic institutions
  • local governments and their organisations
  • local Enterprise Partnerships
  • devolved administrations and organisations overseen by the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive
  • private sector organisations
  • independent charities
• Funding will not be conditional on:
  • export performance, for example, awarding funding to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
  • UK content, for example, awarding funding to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product

Eligibility Criteria

• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project your organisation must be a UK public sector organisation headed by an Accounting Officer responsible for upholding Managing Public Money (MPM).
  • Your project must have approval from a Senior Civil Servant, or equivalent from the lead organisation, with delegation from the Accounting Officer, up to and including the value of the grant being sought.

For more information, visit Government Office for Technology Transfer.