Ancient Greek word meaning "Art or Skill" that was originally used to refer to that kind of knowledge found among artisans or craftsmen, namely the knowledge necessary to produce the thing(s) associated with respective arts and crafts. For example, there is a techne, or skill associated with the art of a potter, namely everything the potter must know to produce a finished work, from the kind of clay to use to decorating it. At the time of Plato and Aristotle, this term had come to mean knowledge in the broadest sense and was applied to the arts and skills of mind, particularly the production or formation of concepts, i.e. rules for thought. It is also found in Aristotle to mean practical science. One interesting connection between this word and the name philosophy appears if we allow that "sophist" is part of the meaning of philosophy (despite the negative view of the Sophists we find in Plato). The name sophist indicates a person of art or skill, there the root word being Sophia, goddess of wisdom.

Techne, or techné, as distinguished from episteme, the Greek word τέχνη (literally: craftsmanship) is often translated as craft or art. It is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective. The means of this method is through art.

Techne is a project aiming to promote widespread collaboration of ideas and experiments around the OSGi Service Platform.