For one thing, barriers to entry appeared to be artificially low in the past decade.
Yet banking is supposed to be a fiercely competitive market, with low barriers to entry.
In other words, the barriers to entry in many market segments are prohibitively high.
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But by lowering barriers to entry, disruptive technologies create expanded opportunities for experimentation and innovation.
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By reducing the barriers to entry for manufacturing, 3D printing should also promote innovation.
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Consoles have tended to be much more closed ecosystems, with high barriers to entry.
Government can also grant monopoly status, barriers to entry and protection from foreign competition.
Uncovering that mispricing may require specialised knowledge that few investors possess, creating profitable barriers to entry.
Barriers to entry are very high, with a handful of participants dominating the market.
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And it has to show that there are significant barriers to entry in the business.
All the same, the barriers to entry for new handset-makers are getting ever lower.
It has what economists call increasing returns to scale and huge barriers to entry.
Ma Bell is long gone, and so are most oligopolies with high barriers to entry.
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Not all the effects of the lowering of the barriers to entry are bad.
Indeed, barriers to exit sometimes seem greater than barriers to entry in the European car industry.
In search, Google is now vulnerable because the barriers to entry to its market are low.
The search engine market is a dynamic marketplace with little to no barriers to entry.
If anything, the lower the barriers to entry in the business, the more size matters.
Be wary of REITs that have bet big on suburbs with low barriers to entry for developers.
These are the things you would never record if the barriers to entry were large and costly.
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By making the user interface attractive and consistent, companies would create higher barriers to entry to competitors.
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One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.
The high barriers to entry in the utility industry will also help fend off any additional competition.
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Davis is dismissive, citing Reed Elsevier's economies of scale, barriers to entry and its attentiveness to customers' needs.
In the past, there would have been too many barriers to entry to get into new markets quickly.
Critics said that it was wasting money in a space (e-commerce) that had very few barriers to entry.
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The webgames market is fragmented with low barriers to entry yet fewer infrastructure restrictions than the MMOG market.
This creates new barriers to entry for new market participants on behalf of the two dominant wireless providers.
The Internet threatens radio broadcasters by destroying the barriers to entry created by the government's licensing of airwaves.
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