Guidance

Funding to accelerate your Knowledge Assets towards the market

Find funding to commercialise your public sector Knowledge Assets.

From:
Government Office for Technology Transfer
Published
4 October 2022
Last updated
7 May 2025 鈥� See all updates

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund

皇冠体育app Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) provides financial grants to government research organisations to commercialise public sector Knowledge Assets.听

皇冠体育app CKAF supports an organisation to move viable public sector Knowledge Assets with identified potential markets towards commercialisation. It provides funding ranging from 拢50,000 to 拢250,000 per project.

Who can apply:听

Research Organisations which we define as: Public Sector Research Establishments (PSREs), UKRI wholly owned institutes and other public sector bodies (e.g. Arm鈥檚 Length Bodies) that undertake research as a primary function. 皇冠体育app full list of eligible organisations can be found on our about us page.

How to apply

Innovate UK are the delivery partner for CKAF and are running the competition. Information to follow on shortly. 聽

Please contact [email protected] with any questions in the interim.

Key dates

Timeline Autumn call 2025
Competition opens tbc
Submission deadline 11am, Thursday 4th September
Sift outcome and invite to panel week commencing 6th October 2025
Assessment panels Tuesday 21st October聽
Thursday 23rd October
Applicants informed of funding decision week commencing 3rd November

Briefing Webinar

To find out more about the fund, the application process and post-award support, from 11.30-12.30pm on the 22 May 2025.听

Any questions about funding should be directed to [email protected].

皇冠体育app Knowledge Assets Grant Fund is now closed

皇冠体育app Knowledge Assets Grant Fund, which ran between 2021-2024 has now closed. For a full list of the projects KAGF has supported, read our KAGF archive page.

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. .

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

Maximum investment: pre-seed and seed

Deadline: N/A

皇冠体育app UKI2S Fund is an early-stage investment fund with an appetite for with high-growth early-stage UK technology opportunities, setting groundbreaking technologies and ideas on a route to market. 皇冠体育app Fund stands out in the investment world by targeting high-risk early-stage opportunities that typically fall outside the comfort zone of established venture capital investors. It is one of the largest pre-seed funds in the UK, with 拢110M under management.听

皇冠体育app UKI2S Fund is a venture capital limited partnership, with UK public sector bodies including UKRI, DSIT, UKAEA, MOD, UKHSA, APHA, UKSA, NPL and JHI as the Limited Partners. 皇冠体育app fund is managed by Future Planet Capital (FPC). Future Planet Capital (Ventures) Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.听

皇冠体育app fund manager works closely with GOTT to help develop spinout propositions with the aim of securing investment capital. If you have a spinout opportunity you鈥檇 like to discuss, please contact out team at [email protected].听

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Updates to this page

Published 4 October 2022
Last updated 7 May 2025 show all updates

  1. We have added a new grant fund.

  2. 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.

  3. 皇冠体育app 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.

  4. Updated links to the competitions.

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

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

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

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

  9. 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.

  10. Updated links for new competition

  11. removed past deadline

  12. amendment to numbering

  13. Further detail given on themed calls

  14. Information added regarding priority themes and different opening dates

  15. Change to include eligible and ineligible organisations

  16. Change to detail that commercial organisations have been excluded

  17. 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.

  18. 皇冠体育app next phase of the Knowledge Assets Grant Fund competition is now open.

  19. Added competition opening dates for 2023.

  20. Added new deadlines for Knowledge Assets Grant Fund

  21. First published.

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