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Knowledge Asset Grant Fund 2022 (closed)

The Knowledge Asset Grant Fund (KAGF) programme is run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT).

From:
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
15 July 2022

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The 2022 competition is now closed. Find out about the 2023 competition.

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Knowledge Asset Grant Fund 2022: eligible costs (closed)

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Knowledge Asset Grant Fund 2022: Explore Grant (closed)

https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1226/overview/1863d898-3e99-4318-9b2f-7344beeb5129

Knowledge Asset Grant Fund 2022: Expand Grant (closed)

https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1228/overview/d0df6a68-9c86-4cc6-977b-6a664677ca83

Knowledge Asset Grant Fund 2022: Extend Grant (closed)

https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1229/overview/64b05e95-0b9d-49ab-a568-07855e503c0c

Details

The Knowledge Assets Grant Fund supports you to explore exciting new uses for your datasets, technology, intellectual property, ideas, and expertise.

It is aimed at organisations across the UK public sector. This funding of up to £250,000 is available for use in supporting the repurposing, commercialisation, or expanded use of public sector knowledge assets.

The fund is open to UK central government organisations that report their finances into an Accounting Officer responsible for upholding HMT’s Managing Public Money (MPM) guidance. This includes:

  • government departments and their partner organisations
  • arms-length bodies
  • public sector research establishments (PSREs). These are research and development institutes sponsored directly by government departments or the 7 UK Research Councils, such as certain government labs

Universities are not eligible to apply. Local government organisations and organisations overseen by the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive are also ineligible.

Funded Projects must:

  • start after 1 October 2022
  • last between 2 and 18 months
  • end by 31 March 2024
  • generate social, financial or economic benefits to the UK
  • seek funding to develop a knowledge asset or assets that are majority owned by the UK government organisation applying for funding.

All awards granted in 2022 must spend at least 50% of the funding awarded by 31 March 2023. Awards granted in 2023, must spend at least 50% of the funding awarded by 30 June 2023. The Knowledge Asset Grant Fund support is for the development of existing assets. Assets do not have to be potentially revenue-generating to attract funding.

Funding is available in 3 bands:

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

The difference between these bands is in the amount of information requested and the size of grant applied for. They are all for early-stage research into Knowledge Asset development and are not sequenced (explore grants, for example, are not necessarily for earlier stages of research than expand grants).

How to apply and submission deadlines

Innovate UK (IUK) are administering this competition using their online competition platform on behalf of the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT).

You can find further information on the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund, including additional detail on eligibility criteria, on the IUK site. From 2022 to the end of March 2023 there will be 3 assessment rounds.

The deadlines for each round are:

  • 18 August 2022 (first submission)
  • 13 October 2022 (second submission)
  • 15 December 2022 (final submission)

Applications submitted after 11am on the first 2 dates will be sent for assessment on the following date.

Contact

If you require more information or are unsure whether your project is eligible, email GrantFund.GOTT@beis.gov.uk and the team can advise.

Published 15 July 2022