New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- At the CII Global Summit on Industry-Academia Partnership on Friday, industry leaders stressed that India must narrow the gap between research and real-world needs to keep pace. CII identified both a problem and an opportunity. Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the summit, Rohit Bansal, Group Head, Corporate Communications, Reliance Industries Ltd, said the divide between industry and academia had become too wide and needed urgent attention.

He explained that while companies were pushing technology forward at a much faster speed, academic institutions were not keeping up. "CII has identified that industry and academia are too far apart. They identified both a problem and an opportunity," he said, adding that firms ...