James Dyson, founder of British vacuum cleaner maker Dyson Ltd., is urging young people to turn toward engineering and science to revive faltering manufacturing in Britain and other industrialized nations.
"I think there is a sense of crisis," Dyson said in a recent interview in Tokyo. He said young people do not show much interest in engineering and science in Britain and the situation is likewise in other industrial nations, including Japan.
"If you look at what's happening in China and India, there is a huge number of children there who want to become engineers and scientists," Dyson said, adding such a development is "very frightening for our economies and also for our culture."