SMEs perceive the public sector as a closed market, or at least a market where it is expensive, risky and complicated to develop new, innovative products and services. The aim of the project is to contribute to more innovative SMEs and will increase the opportunity for SMEs to develop innovative and commercial services through systematic user involvement, which meets needs and challenges in the public sector. The project is a collaborative project between municipalities, county councils, research and ICT companies in Northern Central Sweden. The parties’ joint project goals are to establish an innovation environment with structured processes, where companies, research and the public sector work together to develop, test and verify the digital welfare services of the future. The project is run as a parallel sister project to DigitalWell Reseach, which is owned by Karlstad University. The projects are designed in collaboration and will continue in parallel with a very high degree of interaction and with a joint steering group and management function. DigitalWell Reseach includes business-oriented research efforts that meet the needs of new knowledge and research in the development of digital welfare services.