Industrialists and academics on Saturday agreed to launch joint ventures and initiatives to further strengthen linkage between industry and academia. Participants identified the gaps and hurdles comprehensively that were hampering promotion of academia and industries linkages and gave a number of ideas and proposals to address all those issues. They emphasized the need of devising long term policy to further strengthen linkages between industries and academia. Dr. Akram Shaikh through a video link during the conference also emphasized on boosting up academia and industries mutual collaboration by launching joint ventures, skill training programs and other interventions. Dr Israr also spoke on the occasion and agreed with proposals of the participants regarding the strengthening academia and industries linkages and assured that the provincial government and his department would extend every possible support in this regard.

Source: Pakistan Today February 19, 2022 19:32 UTC