I don't think competition drives innovation. I believe that's a lie perpetuated by the free-marketeers.
I believe necessity drives true innovation. All competition does is it gives an incentive for people/companies to convince you that you 'need' their stuff.
e.g. Look at computer companies or the producers of TV's, desperatly trying to tell us we all need the latest model with the slickest screens and the smoothest curves.... Really? We all know it Bullshit..... I'll keep my cheapo budget 'dumb' mobile phone and my 32" LCD I bought 4 years ago, they work great.
All of our economies are eventually going to fail dramatically. Their existence is predicated upon the lie that we need to perpetually consume. Gradually there is a wakening of our collective human consciousness. Natural laws are shaping our minds whether we like it or not and as a species I remain confident we'll reject the ideas of olde.
I think that the competitive nature is the problem. This shit doesn't work, they are focused on creating jobs. Think about that for a second, let it sink in. Forget about the fact that we think having a job is holy and just ponder it. Why the fuck would you want to CREATE JOBS? Lol I would think it would be better, in the name of efficiency, to you know, get the jobs done. It is a rat race from morning through rush hour to an argument at home in the evening. Our own government is in competing split factions. I'm sure there is an app to fix that.
I'm convinced that our strategy is to grow Opium in A-stan just to keep Pakistan high as shit. Same thing the British Empire did to China for centuries and it worked. Who drew those borders anyway? British Right wing colonial dick heads, philosophical ancestors of American Neocons. They were even the ones who rewrote India's history to create a fake history for Nazism. That fake history is still taught in some US colleges, it is called the Aryan Invasion Theory.
"Survival of the fittest", is a right wing meme. The phrase wasn't coined by Darwin, but by Herbert Spencer, a British economist.