About us

GOTT helps accelerate government’s innovations towards the market, to impact growth and deliver new products and services for citizens.

We contribute to building an environment where innovation can thrive and where improved management and exploitation of knowledge assets can transform processes, products and services in the public and private sectors.

Responsibilities

We are responsible for driving public sector knowledge asset management and commercialisation through:

  • providing advice and guidance on policy and practice
  • supporting the identification and development of knowledge assets with potential for commercialisation, including managing the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund
  • helping government organisations access the right services and expertise
  • creating connected communities to share and develop best practice
  • upskilling civil servants and public servants

Find out more about why knowledge asset management is vital to an innovative UK public sector in the Mackintosh report.

Read our detailed advice on how public sector organisations should approach knowledge asset management in the Rose Book.

Priorities

Our priorities are:

  • raising the profile of knowledge asset exploitation in the public sector
  • making it simpler for government organisations to engage in knowledge asset exploitation and delivering targeted interventions to support them
  • creating engaged and energised communities with an interest in knowledge asset management

Who we are

GOTT is a team of policy, analysis and marketing professionals and knowledge and technology transfer experts. We act as a catalyst: we collaborate, we innovate, we accelerate.

Who we work with

GOTT works with a wide range of organisations across government to help commercialise Knowledge Assets.

  1. In-scope for GOTT support including membership of the Knowledge Asset Network and attendance at GOTT’s annual conference

    • Bodies that classify as Central Government, Executive Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, or Non-Ministerial Departments  

    • UKRI wholly owned institutes

  2. In-scope for GOTT hands-on tech transfer and funding support

    Research Organisations which we define as: 

    Public Sector Research Establishments (PSREs), UKRI wholly owned institutes and other public sector bodies that meet the above criteria and undertake research as a primary function. They are also eligible for support outlined above in 1. 

    This comprises the following organisations:
Animal and Plant Health Agency
Arts Council England
Atomic Weapons Establishment
British Library
British Museum
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Environment Agency
Food Standards Agency
Forest Research
Forestry Commission
Government Communications Headquarters
Health and Safety Executive (incl. Solutions from HSE, formerly Health & Safety Laboratory)
Imperial War Museum
Intellectual Property Office
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Marine Management Organisation
Met Office
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (incl. National Institute for Biological Standards and Control)
MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
MRC Mary Lyon Centre
National Gallery
National Institute of Health and Care Excellence
National Museums Liverpool
National Portrait Gallery
Natural England
Natural History Museum
NERC British Antarctic Survey
NERC British Geological Survey  
NHS Blood and Transplant
National Nuclear Laboratory
National Physical Laboratory
Office for National Statistics
Ordnance Survey
Royal Armouries
Royal Botanic Gardens - Kew
Science Museum Group
Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sport England
STFC & EPSRC National Quantum Computing Centre
STFC National Facilities:

- STFC Boulby Underground Laboratory;
- STFC Daresbury Laboratory (incl. The Hartree Centre);
- STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (incl. Central Laser Facility, ISIS Neutron and Muon Space, RAL Space).
STFC The UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC)
Tate
The English Heritage Trust
The National Archives
The UK Hydrographic Office
UK Atomic Energy Authority
UK Space Agency
UK Health Security Agency
Veterinary Medicines Directorate
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wallace Collection

Out of scope

  • Public bodies that classify as Local Government 

  • Those that classify solely as Public Corporations, unless they are a Public Sector Research Establishment and are directly sponsored or owned by a Central Government Department, in which case they will be eligible for all GOTT support as a Research Organisation 

If you have any questions about eligibility, please email us at GOTT@DSIT.GOV.UK

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