The  paper  presents  a  discussion  about  gaps  and opportunities  for  cross-pollination between Value  Driven Design  and Lean Product  Service Development to  promote  the  use  of  value-driven method and  tools  since  the  preliminary  design stages. In particular  the  paper  discusses  how methods  and tools developed in  Value  Driven  Design  have  the  potential to  be  applied  in  the preliminary  design  stage in  the context  of  Lean Product  Service  Development.  The  paper  concludes  by  defining  a  research area  on  Value  Innovation method and  tools  for  preliminary  Lean Product Service  Development. © 2015 The  Authors.  Published  by  Elsevier  B.V. Selection and  peer-review  under  responsibility  of  the International  Scientific Committee  of  “The  7th  CIRP  Conference  on Industrial  ProductService  Systems”  in  the persons of  the Conference Chairs Prof.  Xavier Boucher and  Prof.  Daniel Brissaud.   © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Peer-review under responsibility of the International Scientifi c Committee of the 7th Industrial Product-Service Systems Conference - PSS, industry transformation for sustainability and business Keywords: Value Driven  Design;  Lean  Product  Service  Development;  Value  Innovation;  Preliminary  Design