The pre-study’s goal is to find out the prerequisites for establishing a data lab where SMEs together with students can work with sustainability issues in the data-driven innovation process. The pre-study highlights the lack of an infrastructure for SMEs to work with sustainability in data-driven digital innovation. The project partner therefore intends to conduct an analysis of the target group, SME’s needs/challenges and potential collaborative actors, identify and develop tools and test a pilot lab, where the pre-study tests and evaluates the concept in order to provide input to a possible implementation project. The pre-study will be run by the University of Borås and the Alexanderson Institute at Varberg Municipality.