Know-how

When know-how [ noʊhaʊ, noʊhaʊ ] (English " know - how " ) is skills and knowledge of procedural operations. These include solutions and processes or solutions to various problems, such as in science, banking, administration, support services and engineering. To a large extent is tacit knowledge.

History

The term goes back to Gilbert Ryle's influential study, The Concept of Mind ( 1949). There Ryle had the classic knowledge ( "knowing that", knowing that ) is distinguished from skills ( "knowing how", know how ).

Business management

The know -how as an intangible resource is an asset to an organization for

• This is valuable individually or in combination, rare, durable and hard to imitate or substitutable ( "sustainable " ), and
• The company is able to transfer the appropriate resource base through organizational design in terms of performance potential and proactively use ( " Capability ").

The know -how is considered to be immaterial or intangible resource and is allocated within this range, the Human Resources. In the enterprise value the expertise expresses goodwill.

Legal consideration

In the legal sense, know-how is not a legal object, could be equipped with the. This becomes clear when one faces the know -how, for example, Patents: A patent is a legal recognized in the available object (or better: a right object) that can be sold as one thing or other rights. Know-how can not be transferred in the legal sense, but only to be reported. In contrast, know- how, exactly be the subject of a contractual legal license agreement such as intellectual property rights.