Even in Japan, often cited as a country that has sought to foster its manufacturing sector, less than a quarter of the workforce is in manufacturing.
A number of countries hope to foster defence manufacturing at home.
Industrial ambition also plays a part: a number of countries hope to foster defence manufacturing at home.
Many of the world's leading industrial nations have invested in national initiatives to foster advanced manufacturing, innovation, and design for the globalized world.
But one year into his term as prime minister and many say Mr Modi is showing some distinctly undemocratic tendencies as he tries to foster a manufacturing boom in India.
He pushed Congress to foster domestic manufacturing with a program known as "the American School" that had four central policies: 1) tariffs on imports; 2) direct subsidies, or "bounties," for domestic manufacturers; 3) a partially public-owned national bank; 4) broad public investments in infrastructure, or "internal improvements," like roads, canals, and ports.
(Economists, even those close to the Obama administration, have been divided over the policy value of fostering domestic manufacturing).
From a common state of low growth a decade ago (condemned by credit-swollen Britain at the time as stagnation), Germany has fostered quality manufacturing, improved productivity, slowed pay rises, curbed the welfare state and benefited from something of an export boom.
Since the 1990s the practice of design promotion is evolving, and governments have used policy management and design management to promote design as part of their efforts of fostering technology, manufacturing and innovation.
