I work as a researcher in academia I would definitely tell that in academia we learn more thing than in industry because its basically application of what we know but where as in academia we learn new things more frequently at your own pace and even carry experiment at our space there is no hush for deadline to be chased. Even quality of results are better in academia since there is not much cost cutting there is no husling around and you can take time until satisfactory results are achieved so I think academia is better in most of the aspects from research point of view.