It is the only economic resource that cannot be transferred across corporate boundaries, and, therefore, the ultimate source of competitive advantage in global industries where imitation, market saturation, and lower entry barriers quickly eliminate market rents.
Zynga also operates in a market where barriers to entry are becoming significantly higher as the quality of social games continues to increase, said Tom Taulli, an independent IPO expert.
The webgames market is fragmented with low barriers to entry yet fewer infrastructure restrictions than the MMOG market.
But critical to most of these investments is a sound intellectual property position to protect those investments, since intellectual property rights can provide barriers to market entry.
Yet banking is supposed to be a fiercely competitive market, with low barriers to entry.
Time tested economic theory tells us that in a free, unfettered market not constrained by onerous barriers to entry, the long term price of a commodity will approach its marginal cost of production.
In other words, the barriers to entry in many market segments are prohibitively high.
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In search, Google is now vulnerable because the barriers to entry to its market are low.
This creates new barriers to entry for new market participants on behalf of the two dominant wireless providers.
Barriers to entry in the market are low (a camera and quick wits).
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It concluded there were few barriers to entry to this market-- which was at one time dominated by Netscape, now owned by AOL Time Warner (nyse: AOL - news - people)--so that no one could be said to monopolize it.
There are few barriers to entry in the beer market.
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This lowers barriers of entry to the online gambling market for established names.
Furthermore, the market share is protected by "substantial" barriers to entry.
The search engine market is a dynamic marketplace with little to no barriers to entry.
We think that this concern is overblown because of the large size and fragmentation of the commercial reverse supply chain segment, high barriers to entry for successful penetration into the market, and the incompatibility of an online surplus liquidation business with the aforementioned potential competitors.
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We assume that CSX will be able to hold onto its current market share in coal freight market till the end of our forecast period due to high barriers to entry in the industry.
As the emergence in recent years of an entirely new market in mobile computing applications has shown, there are virtually no barriers to entry in the software field.
Ultimately, when the market is led by the choices companies make in their BYOD policies, the barriers to entry become much higher.
Barriers to entry are very high, with a handful of participants dominating the market.
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China has maintained a rather tight grip over the world's rare earths market, thanks to a slew of export controls, quotas and government-erected barriers to entry.
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Crucial elements of companies with lip-smacking growth prospects: quality product, experienced management team, scalable business model, barriers to entry by competitors and of course, a huge, hungry market.
"There is value in the market for very well-located retail assets in secondary markets, where there are high barriers to entry and good demographic fundamentals, " he says.
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