To keep up with America and Asia, she says, Europe instead has to become more adventurous: entrepreneurs and venture capitalists must take more risks, politicians stop protecting vested interests, incumbent companies be open to experiment and consumers try more new things.
This is a major turnaround for an organisation that has historically been criticised by consumer and green groups as a dinosaur protecting the vested interest of incumbent supply companies such as British Gas, SSE and others.
The possibility of a government that serves the interests of incumbent politicians and special interests rather than the public remains as real a danger now as it was a century ago, and the initiative provides an important alternative to the crude and often ineffective option of removing an unresponsive officials at the polls.
But, too often, the interests of investors, markets and capital formation - the public interests - are subordinated to the private interests of incumbent financial firms with political connections, lobbying might, an army of high-paid lawyers and lucrative job offers.
The complaint explains that, contrary to Congress' expectation when it enacted the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and consistent with their own economic self-interests, petitioner Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) have assiduously avoided infringing upon each other's markets and have refused to permit nonincumbent competitors to access their networks.
A handful of software-defined storage companies, such as Formation Data Systems, Hedvig and Datera, all could be of interest to incumbents.
Though Instacart is showing no signs of slowing down — the company recently raised $200 million in funding — the industry as a whole is seeing growing interest from incumbents and behemoth tech companies alike.
The AU's record has been better, but critics say the AU still tends behave like a club protecting the interests of incumbent leaders.
When constituencies are so heavily contorted in the interests of incumbents that there is precious little consequence to anything a politician does, then you don't really have a democracy, you just have the vote.
The critics say that many of the proposed legislative districts seem to have been drawn to protect the interests of incumbents, and that the Legislature has not yet proposed a new map of Congressional districts, even though a judge has ordered that the primary elections for House races be held in June instead of September.
