“Not very BRIC-y of them.”
Who knows, but it does seem that India is learning from the way we let China (and now other countries) pretty much end the US and Europe as industrial superpowers.
“Europe as industrial superpowers.”
“Europe” never was an industrial superpower. It is a continent.
The industrial superpowers were the UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, etc. but not Spain, Portugal etc.