Deadline: 16-Mar-23
Applicants are now invited to submit applications for the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund: Extend (KAGF).
The Knowledge Asset Grant Fund (KAGF) programme is run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) and funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Innovate UK are administering this competition using their online competition platform on behalf of GOTT.
The aim of this competition is to support the identification and development of public sector knowledge assets, including their repurposing, commercialisation or expanded use. These assets may include intellectual property, data, innovation, software and knowhow. The Knowledge Asset Grant Fund will support projects which are not suitable to secure investment from private sources. For example, this could be where funding is required to develop an asset to be used across different organisations within government which usually do not collaborate.
Assets
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
Potential value includes financial, economic and social benefits and can be achieved through commercialisation or expanded use of the asset across government and stakeholder organisations.
Funding Information
- Have a grant funding request between £100,001 and £250,000
- 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
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.
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
For more information, visit Government Office for Technology Transfer.
