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Summary Punjab University VC Mujahid Kamran said PhDs can bridge the gap between academia and industry.
Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that young PhDs are playing their role in better research output and they can help bridge gap between academia and industry.He was speaking at a workshop organized by Punjab University’s Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) on “Platform for bridging Academia-Industry linkage” at Centre for Undergraduate Studies.Dr Kamran said that all such departments which were not doing research in the past were now producing PhDs. He said that young PhDs would be helpful in promoting academia’s relationship with industry.He said the agenda of Knowledge Shop, which was being established with the help of Higher Education Commission, was to provide all kind of knowledge input to industry under one roof, create consortium of universities, transfer and adaptation of technology, research and testing by backward linkages, human resource covering all types of skills and point out 2030 vision of talent requirement.The PU VC noted that less than 10 percent of potential was being utilized because of lack of marketing. He said that the economic challenges being faced by the country were energy crisis, trade deficit, lack of investment, reduction in foreign aid, economically growing neighbours and instability.
