PhD is beneficial as it gives you the wider picture. There are a lot of people in industry that conduct research. PhD pushes the researcher towards allowing your thoughts to change and thus be able to adapt to different environments easily. Action without theory to support it is not useful. In a PhD environment you gain more training and skills than in the real world where you are directed.
Present researchers are the educators for the next generation.
Thus they have to keep in line with all the new innovations. PhD allows the researcher to develop a particular expertise that cannot be learnt from industry. These notes were produced by Phd students Duncan Shaw and Shadi Abouzeid .