Bangladesh, Nov. 15 -- Dr. M. Rokunzzaman's timely attention to any nuptial between a civilised society's two key pillars, the intellect and industry, drives the next question: can the generic outcomes he identifies apply to countries new in both those fields? [Reducing academia-industry gap: Three approaches, M. Rokunuzzaman, The Financial Express, November 06, 2019] Clearly an academia-industry marriage cannot come out of romance, given how independently robust each can stand in the 21st century, but arranged marriages can be made warm enough to survive 21st century peculiarities.
Of his three possibilities, the first, which converts academia into an industrial annex, presumes a singular industrial format at odds with today's global grou...