Guidance

Get funding to develop and exploit knowledge assets

Find funding to develop early stage knowledge assets towards adoption or commercialisation.

From:
Government Office for Technology Transfer
Published
4 October 2022
Last updated
23 September 2024 — See all updates

Knowledge Assets Grant Fund

The Knowledge Assets Grant Fund is currently closed

The Summer 2024 round of the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund closed on 12 September 2024.

Any questions about the Grant Fund should be emailed to grantfund.gott@dsit.gov.uk.

The Knowledge Assets Grant Fund supports organisations across the public sector in the UK to explore exciting new uses of datasets, technology, intellectual property, ideas, and expertise.

Funding is available for use in supporting the development, repurposing, commercialisation or expanded use of public sector knowledge assets.

For a full list of the projects KAGF has supported, read our KAGF archive page.

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Types of funding you can apply for

There are 3 bands of funding you can apply for:

  • Explore Grant (up to and including £25,000)
  • Expand Grant (£25,001 to £100,000)
  • Extend Grant (£100,001 to £250,000)

The size of the grant for each band is determined by the amount of information requested to meet the criteria for that band.

The bandings do not reflect the stage of development of your project. For example, you can apply for an Explore Grant to help you take an already well-developed project in a new direction.

UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S)

Funding type: early stage venture capital funding

Who can apply: emerging spin-out companies based on knowledge assets from UK public sector organisations. Read more about the UKI2S investment criteria.

Total funding: £13.9 million investment for public sector knowledge assets

Maximum investment: no limit (pre-seed to series A funding and beyond)

Deadline: N/A

UKI2S is an early-stage investment fund backed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and other public bodies. Together, they are supporting the most ambitious UK innovators at seed and beyond to:

  • create new companies and facilitate sustainable growth
  • enhance the health and security of society
  • deliver economic gains from the UK public funding

UKI2S works closely with GOTT to provide investment capital to exploit the UK’s public knowledge assets.

How to apply

Pitch for UKI2S investment.

Updates to this page

Published 4 October 2022
Last updated 23 September 2024 + show all updates

  1. A notice has been added because the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund is currently closed. Information on how to contact the team and to get updates has been added.

  2. The dates for the winter round of funding for the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund has been removed because there is going to be a pause in the competition.

  3. Updated links to the competitions.

  4. Removed information on themed funding rounds to the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund because funding rounds will no longer be themed.

  5. additional funding dates and deadlines added to KAGF, as well as a link to KAGF archive.

  6. Date removed for past deadline of KAGF and links updated to reflect application portal for new funding round.

  7. Added information about themed funding rounds and changed the opening date for the next competition to 3 January 2024.

  8. Removed previous funding round deadlines, as this has now passed. Also removed details on themed autumn call as this has now passed, and the next call for funding is not themed.

  9. Updated links for new competition

  10. removed past deadline

  11. amendment to numbering

  12. Further detail given on themed calls

  13. Information added regarding priority themes and different opening dates

  14. Change to include eligible and ineligible organisations

  15. Change to detail that commercial organisations have been excluded

  16. Future application deadlines have been added for the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund. Eligibility information has been added to the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund as from the 8 June 2023 NHS Trusts will no longer be in scope.

  17. The next phase of the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund competition is now open.

  18. Added competition opening dates for 2023.

  19. Added new deadlines for Knowledge Assets Grant Fund

  20. First published.

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