The innovative part will come when the community grows. Like NXT is being Innovative by creating new Ideas and building it at the same time.
Compare how NXT was in November and how it is now. Almost every day a new innovative Idea pops up.
Are you afraid of some concurrence or why are you trying to put a negative stamp on NEM? It would be better when you leave that project. I write you again after NEM became a big player

The goal is to create a new economic movement. I don't see the how cloning Nxt, promising future innovation and taking peoples' Nxt fits with that objective.
Imo, the people that sent their Nxt in for some Nem would have been better if they had simply kept their Nxt.
Dividing meager resources between two teams makes no sense.
Then why are there so many interests in creating Altcoins in the market?
Like Litecoin, Namecoin, Dogecoin etc.
NXT cannot do this on it's own. NEM can inspire NXT or the other way around to improve perhaps.