A need to bridge gap between industry and academia

Sharing insights: Azleen (centre) and Deepa at the conference. With them is Financial Accreditation Agency CEO Khairul Nizam as the moderator.

PETALING JAYA: There is a lack of awareness and engagement with the industry when it comes to the works and research done by higher learning institutions in terms of market development.

Institute for Capital Market Research director Datin Azleen Osman Rani said the key challenges included getting the industry to utilise the information in research papers produced by universities to provide solutions that are really needed for capital markets.