This paper outline a proposal to study the build-up process of digital capabilities in SMEs and technology-based startups that are produced through the exchange of complementary knowledge between external stakeholders. The SMART4ALL consortium aims to accelerate the launch and adoption of emerging technologies that potentially ensure the improvement of digital infrastructure of the SMEs located in South- Eastern and Central Europe. The introduction of Pathfinder Application Experiments are cross-border experiments that pursue the use of cross-domain of CLEC, CPS and the IoT technologies based co-opetition, co-evolution and co-specialization processes which will be combined in parallel with expertise in R&D, networking and business strategies. Most of these innovation activities are geared towards the development of digital capabilities apply in agriculture, transport, environment and the interconnection of anything, which are considered to be low-embedded digitalization. The research proposal aims to answer what elements influence the fast track build-up of digital capabilities in SMEs and start-ups participants and what organizational elements are influenced by digital capabilities support the launch and adoption of emerging technology?