Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and other funders: Knowledge asset grant fund - explore, expand, extend

22/06/2023

07/09/2023

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. Your project must: have a maximum grant funding request of up to £25,000 for the Explore strand, have a grant funding request between £25,001 and £100,000 for the Expand strand, have a grant funding request between £100,001 and £250,000 for the Extend strand start by 1 December 2023 end by 31 March 2025 last between 2 and 18 months.

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 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.

Applicant type Academic Institution; Government or Public Sector; Non-profit