Government Office for Technology Transfer (UK)

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](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/getting-smarter-a-strategy-for-knowledge-innovation-assets-in-the-public-sector-the-mackintosh-report). Read our detailed advice on how public sector organisations should approach knowledge asset management in [the Rose Book](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/knowledge-asset-management-in-government). **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 Departments, 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 Chilbolton Observatory; - 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