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Literature has stated contradictory arguments about the importance of tangible and intangible resources. Meanwhile knowledge literature insists on the importance of tacit knowledge, more traditional innovation literature and many practitioners have preferred to be focused in the importance of specific and tangible resources in organizational learning to generate innovative processes. The second perspective particularly highlights the abundance of technological resources because growing importance of information technology. This study examines the relevance of technology slack and tacit knowledge in the capability of organizational learning through an empirical investigation of 54 doctors and 62 nurses belonging to 44 Hospitalin- the-Home Units (HHU). Our results show a positive relationship between technological slack and tacit knowledge and between tacit knowledge and organizational learning; while the direct path between technological slack and organizational learning was not found to be significant [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]