I have experience in both the fields,even though I worked in industry only for a limited time and lately I have been working as a research student in academia. I think working in academia as a researcher you can learns lots of things and in very very detailed way but I would also mention that this detail might not be really be important to many other people in the real world but when you learn something in industry you definitely know those are skills or knowledge which everyone would be looking around. In academia there are no assurance that whatever project you are doing in your research is something which will give data which can be further used or lead to develop into a publication but on the other hand in industry when you are working on something you know that’s gonna be a part of a bigger thing. So I think there is more satisfaction and less dis-heartning in industry than in academia. But on the other hand if you are able to find a technology or a research that could be the next big thing or something that can humanity forever and if you want the credit for the thing you discovered than academia is the place to be because you work in industry than all the credit would be taken by the company instead and also the probability of you finding this big thing is more likely in academia because the amount of time you can spend, flexibility.
At the end of the day it depends on what you think and what you want to become.