How to Develop Strong Linkages between Business, Industry and Academia” was organized by Higher Education Commission in collaboration with the Institute of Space Technology, University of Gujrat and Pakistan Institute of Entrepreneurship at HEC Secretariat, Islamabad. The Symposium was attended by industrialists, vice chancellors, senior academicians and researchers from across the country, was to provide a platform to both industry and academia to come under roof to jointly propose the fit-for-purpose policy. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.611314965638673.1073742180.214449805325193&type=3&hc_location=ufi https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10155913400905113&id=313511035112 In this workshop Professor Ahsan Iqbal has inaugurated a web site to serve said purpose, http://piacp.org/#/home However best international practices in said topic can further reviewed at http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n3/pdf/nbt.3171.pdf http://osp.mit.edu/sites/osp/files/u8/bestpractices.pdf