Funding to accelerate your knowledge assets towards the market

Find funding to commercialise your public sector knowledge assets.

The Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) provides financial grants to government research organisations to commercialise public sector knowledge assets. 

The CKAF supports an organisation to move viable public sector knowledge assets with identified potential markets towards commercialisation. It provides funding ranging from £50,000 to £250,000 per project.

Research organisations which we define as:

Innovate UK are the delivery partner for CKAF and are running the competition.

At the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT), we are committed to supporting a diverse and technology-agnostic mix of knowledge assets and organisations.

To ensure that CKAF funding supports a range or organisations, we have introduced an annual funding distribution threshold of £800,000 per organisation.

This threshold acts as a trigger point in our assessment process to help balance support across the ecosystem.

It runs on an annual basis. The threshold applies to the total funding allocated to an organisation within a single financial year, for example, the total of the spring, autumn and winter calls (it is not based on the timing of spend). It resets at the start of each financial year and is not cumulative, that is, previous funding from CKAF and Knowledge Assets Grant Fund (KAGF) is not considered.

Applications from organisations that have already received £800,000 or more in the current financial year will still be considered and could be funded, but are ranked below applications that are deemed fundable from organisations that are below the threshold.