Mr Clegg wants to give staff a broad right to request shares.
The plan allowing workers to request shares could extend beyond publicly listed firms to private firms.
Take the idea of giving employees a "new, universal 'right to request' shares".
Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat business minister, will review whether employees could be given a new "right to request" shares in the companies they work for.
Clegg ended his passage about the "right to request" shares by saying "clearly the details of that kind of policy need to be properly thought through".
He will look specifically at the possibility of introducing a universal right for employees to request shares in the companies they work for.
Clegg's aides admitted the proposal for a right to request shares is at a formative stage, including whether such shares should be voting or offered at a discount.
Liberal Democrat ministers are to explore ways of getting employee ownership "into the bloodstream" of the British economy – including the introduction of a right for workers to request shares in their companies.
Workers could be given the right to request shares in the companies they work for under proposals put forward on Monday by Nick Clegg, to create what he describes as a "John Lewis" economy.
