Here's a great example of global industry-academia relationship. Every country is in dire need of Visionary Professors like Prof. Kamakoti from IIT Madras, who would go out of the way to teach participants outside IIT's, which greatly helps to build a community to work towards India's Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) vision and
World's open-source hardware vision
I met so many Professors in my 20-years of career, who actually talked a lot about vision, but very few Professors, like Prof. Kamakoti from IIT Madras had the courage to execute the vision. Shakti project is one such example. And now a series of planned 5-day workshops, to bring out the best from students for ESDM and open-source projects
As Sir mentioned, There is no substitute for hard-work. Read below blog for more details about workshop, and stay tuned for more details
