How do we expand entrepreneurship?

Lots of people are talking about entrepreneurship – in business schools, at business conferences and in the pages of business magazines. But entrepreneurship is a way of engaging the world, not just your job. Participants in the December 2011 Lab – in partnership with the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois – tackle the real value of entrepreneurship in our society and work to isolate the key to broader, deeper adoption.

Lee Fisher, CEOs for Cities
Rich Gamble, Chicago Magazine
Harry Epstein, HAVI Global Systems
Ray Crossman, Adler School of Professional Psychology
Jim Banister, Matriculate
Dan Sinker, Knight-Mozilla Technology News Partnership
Murray Lamond, MacArthur Foundation
Pablo Montagnes, University of Chicago
Ruth Lednicer, Chicago Public Libraries
Tracy Samantha Schmidt, Crain’s Consulting
Melanie Goldish, Supersibs!
Ethan Austin, Give Forward
Jim Jacoby, Manifest
Al Herbach, Schmaltz Online
John Clarke, University of Illinois
Liora Bresler, University of Illinois
Raj Echambadi, University of Illinois
Jeff Leitner, Insight Labs
Howell Malham Jr., Insight Labs
Andrew Benedict-Nelson, Insight Labs

Photography by Jason Smith; audio engineering by Shirk Music and Sound; and video editing by Lyn Niemann.