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The Sound of Ideas - Meet Your Makers
 
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Anyone who grew up on tinker toys or erector sets knows the pleasure of making things. Now, millions of American are rediscovering that feeling, and turning a profit. The maker movement, a coalition of entrepreneurs, inventors, and crafty types who make things from gadgets to clothes to food, are shaking up the economy. Some makers argue Cleveland embodies what the movement is all about. Meet Cleveland's makers.

Guests:

Lisa Camp, associate dean for Strategic Initiatives, Case Western Reserve University
James Krouse, artistic director, Ingenuity Cleveland
Ian Charnas, operations director, think[box]
Lyn Goeringer, Oberlin maker
August 13, 2014