“…These competences are the necessary resources to generate and manage improvements in production, project engineering and investments Shikida, Azevedo and Vian (2011) address the set of competences which translate technological capability into the company's competitiveness.While admitting the lack of a consensus regarding the concept of technological capability found in the literature,Mori, Batalha and Alfranca (2014) define it as being the company's capability to use, adapt, generate, develop, transfer and diffuse technologies. It would be the result of a set of effort, skills (operational, organizational, relational and learning) and information paramount for the solid incorporation of innovations in organization's operations.ForAraújo (2005) and Hueske (2015), in addition to internal technological capabilities, other variables may affect the company's technical-economic performance, such as technological learning processes, external crises and macroeconomic or sectoral measures. A comprehensive approach to technological capability in companies goes beyond its conventional elements, such as technical-physical systems and human capital, in order to capture the organizational dimension of technological capability.…”