Despite the proliferation of universities across the African continent, research and knowledge from these institution barely influence how business is done and how governments make decisions.

While faculty and students embarks on academic studies and publish thesis at all levels, few of these are influenced by the realities and needs of the society and even fewer make it back into the society and industry as knowledge that improves practise.

AUIA exists to correct this anomaly by providing a foundation for the needs of industry and society to inform the knowledge generated in our universities and to provide an easy stream for the result of academic research to filter back into industry and society.