SPECIAL REPORT RAWALPINDI: Research can help serve the constant demand for improvement quality, lowering costs, and creating more value. And can also help develop new approaches for solving problems.
“Academicians and R&D organizations have to increase their focus to tailor the research and should address the growing needs of the local industry to produce functional science and engineering work force,” these were the consensus remarks given by the speakers during a symposium titled “Building Effective Coordination between R&D and Industry” held here last week.
The event was arranged by PASTIC, Institute of Research Promotion and RCCI under their collaborative University Industry Partnership Programme with an aim to develop a correlation between research objectives and local industries priorities and needs.
In his remarks, Tariq Shafi Chak, Additional Secretary Ministry of Industries, called for stronger linkages between the academia, the industrialists and the Ministry of Science and Technology through PASTIC and Pakistan Science Foundation.
While addressing the seminar, Dr Manzoor Hussain Soomro, Chairman PSF, said that in Pakistan there is a dire need to make relevance between the functional knowledge and education that can be readily converted into commercial undertakings.
The government needs to extend its all-out cooperation to promote this relationship as it would pave the way for the strengthening the research and development activities in the country. Dr. Sohail H. Naqvi, Executive Director HEC, said that the industry, the universities, the research organizations or the government alone could not compete in global socio-techno-economic environment. “We should come forward and pool our efforts as well as resources from academicians and industrial units for the promotion of IT and S&T sectors as this would provide a strong basis for the country growth.”
In his remarks, Engineer Imran Rehman, Vice Chancellor IST, said that the academia needed to understand and realize what corporate community expects from our graduates. The industry must also articulate how the academics can be supported to acquire more in-depth knowledge of actual practices followed in the industry, and help them impart relevant knowledge to the students for product development, documentation, marketing and life cycle support, he said.
According to the speakers, the topics and projects need not focus on fundamental issues only, but should address long-term, generic research within an intellectual envelope shared by the industrial partner. Fundamental research generally is performed in academe in parallel with more applied research in industry.
The HEC chairman said in his remarks that the commission also emphasizes on developing industry-university research linkages in the design of products and processes.
http://www.technologytimes.pk/mag/2011/jan11/issue02/academicians_industry_links_vital.php
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