“…Thus, organizations that are efficient in the generation of innovations have routines for each dimension of AC (Zahra & George, 2002), which in turn are interrelated with the phases of the lifecycle of R&D projects (Mikulskienė, 2014;Project Management Institute [PMI], 2013;Ali et al, 2018;Bjorvatn & Wald, 2018), composing a broad set of organizational processes. These, when systematized, can confer the stage of development (Guedes, Ziviani, Paiva, Ferreira, & Herzog, 2017) of the AC (potential, achieved or scalable), i.e., the capacity to absorb knowledge and promote innovations (new products, processes and services). In short, among the different possibilities of characterizing the configuration of AC, it is understood that it is possible to classify it briefly into the categories detailed below (Figure 2.1).…”