In 2006, the Big Ideas Contestlaunched at UC Berkeley to catalyze and support an interdisciplinary and diverse network of student entrepreneurs to develop game-changing innovations. No longer would entrepreneurship be ensconced within just engineering and business schools and accessible to only a few. The time had come to “open-source” entrepreneurship to include the range of perspectives and interdisciplinary expertise necessary to develop well-rounded solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.

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Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Specialization? Some Thoughts on 21st-Century PhDs
By Sophi Martin When you get a PhD, you are the world’s expert in some narrow but incredibly deep scientific realm. You have asked a