ICCI and NUML to promote industry-academia linkages for industrialization.

ISLAMABAD -- Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) and National University of Modern Languages (NUML) On Thursday agreed to work together for promoting industry-academia linkages in order to produce demand-driven students who could contribute towards improving industrial productivity and boost industrialization in the region.

This consensus was reached during a visit of a delegation of MUML led by its Rector Major General (R) Muhammad Jaffar to ICCI. Dr. Muhammad Zubair Iqbal Pro-Rector Research and Dr. Faid Gul, Head of Department of Management Sciences were in the delegation.

The delegation held a meeting with SardarYasirIlyas Khan, President, ICCI and discussed with him the importance of strong industry-academia linkages for commercialization of innovative business ideas of students in order to improve the industrial development and economic growth of the country.

Speaking on the occasion Rector, NUML said that universities could help the local industry in improving its productivity, efficiency and competitiveness through strong academia-industry linkages. He said that research departments of universities were conducting good research work in various fields, but due to lack of coordination, local industry was not benefiting from these research projects.

He urged that industry should share its problems with universities so that academia could find out their optimum solutions. He said that NUML has established a dedicated block for display of industrial products and ICCI should cooperate in showcasing the potential of local industrial products through their display in that facility.

The delegation also briefed the ICCI team about the initiatives of NUML for...