The Executive Guide, according to its editor, is a tool for quickly gaining information about the full range of issues related to innovation and intellectual property management covered in Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices. The guide promotes intellectual property management for both commercial and humanitarian ends, offering tools and strategies for utilising the power of intellectual property and the public domain. It provides a summary of key concepts and management approaches for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, licensing executives, and students.

The guide is designed to link theoretical issues to ideas to help individuals from public and private organisations strategically manage their intellectual property. According to its editor, it:

• summarises best practices.
• creates benchmarks for government policymakers, universities, the public sector research, scientists, and technology transfer professionals/licensing executives.
• summarises the handbook’s fundamental findings.
• is distributed without cost to low- and middle-income countries through funding provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation.

Press release from Anatole Krattiger on October 22 2007.