To achieve its ambitious goals, the TYPES project was planned over a period of 30 months. In this time frame, activities have been organised into three project phases. The first project phase was dedicated to the design of the technological solutions that have derived into exploitable software at the end of the project. The second phase of the project mixed Technological Innovation objectives, in which we aimed to release a software associated to each technological solution designed in the previous phase, and Impact-Exploitation objectives towards the design and interim evaluation (i.e. in lab environment) of the pilots required for the exploitation and commercialization plans. Finally, the last phase of the project has been fully dedicated to deliver close-to-the-market products and services in form of pre-production pilots that can be commercialized in the short term after the project finalization.
We have performed an intensive evaluation of TYPES privacy-preserving technology across the four concrete pilots based on the technological solutions implemented. The pilots have been designed and implemented into a lab environment using the Living Lab approach. This interim evaluation provided valuable feedback to the technical Work Packages and validated the release technological solutions. The final phase established the measure of the impact and commercial value of the TYPES solutions.
TYPES tools have been tested by a large set of real users, and the results obtained from these test, a final analysis of the expected short-term market impact has been done.
The final plans on exploitation and future commercialization of the various tools designed and developed within TYPES have been defined and presented with detail in D2.5. We remark that the business plans concluded are strongly linked with the testing and piloting derived from WP7.
An intensive dissemination activity has been implemented during the whole lifespan of the project that included talks in different forums: scientific, industrial, policy-makers, society, etc. In addition, some ideas developed in the TYPES project have been reported in important media – and this, of course, has been an important vehicle to bring TYPES to the society.
