Last week, we welcomed colleagues from across public sector research organisations to GOTT’s annual conference, also known as GOTT Con. The 2026 theme, Leveraging Knowledge Assets for Growth, explored how the insights, expertise and Knowledge Assets (KAs) that public sector …
Author: Sarah Staniland, Head of Communities and Funding, GOTT Today, the Government Office for Technology Transfer announced the opening of the autumn call of the new Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund. The fund is designed to support government research organisations in …
Author: Jacob Coker, Head of Policy, and Cameron Fenwick, Senior Technology Transfer Strategic Partner, GOTT Introducing the new Spinouts guide The public sector hosts some of the UK’s leading research and innovation, which, if commercialised as new products and services, …
Author: Dr Maggie McGowan, Deputy Director, Capability and Partnerships, GOTT Last week, I had the pleasure of chairing a dynamic panel discussion at GOTTCon 2025, titled "What Problem Are You Solving? Identifying Market Needs for Effective Knowledge Asset Commercialisation." The …
Authors: Joanna Rodin and Rachel Egan, Deputy Director job-share, Strategy and Implementation, GOTT. Last week we chaired a panel discussion on the subject of "Risk and Innovation" which brought together a wide range of different experts from various sectors to …
by Claire Kerridge Tell us about a Knowledge Asset innovative project you’re proud of and why? Our focus in cell and gene therapy research led us to explore the necessity for a UK-based, not-for-profit induced pluripotent stem cell repository. This …
by Nadia Shivji-Brown Tell us about a Knowledge Asset innovative project you’re proud of and why? I am working on a Tuberculosis (TB) Biomarker project at UKHSA. Although I joined the project two years ago and was not involved from …
by Puja Myles Tell us about a Knowledge Asset innovative project you’re proud of and why? I am very proud of the work I have done with MHRA colleagues, on the generation of high-fidelity synthetic data. Synthetic data is created …
by James Spurr Tell us about a Knowledge Asset innovative project you’re proud of and why? When I joined Ordnance Survey (OS) in summer 2024, I had the unique opportunity to take on a brand-new role in a household name …
by Mich Lampson Tell us about a Knowledge Asset innovative project you’re proud of and why? I have been fortunate to work with many Knowledge Assets, but the Broadband Spectrometer invented by my colleague at the Space department in Rutherford …