English Abstract: This paper proposes a framework for understanding the process of learning capacity building at firm level. Drawing upon the literature on organizational learning, knowledge management, absorptive capacity and dynamic capability, the framework offers a window that enables observation of how organizations integrate and diffuse knowledge into their routines. Moreover, building from an evolutionary perspective it traces the relationship between the learning and the technological trajectories along the firm's life cycle. The framework assumes that learning occurs through actions, which involve not only the cognition of individuals but also collective meaning, with the intention to change behaviours – and therefore routines – through a process of 'sensemaking'. These intentions represented through events are defined here as 'learning schemes.' Defining the learning schemes (through learning events) as the units within which knowledge integration and learning can be observed brings about a discussion which refers to the organization as a social structure of shared perspectives in which actions are a response to the organizational context but are based on individual interpretation, and it is the individuals who finally search for new interpretative systems.